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  • Virginia Tech and University of Tuscia lead international research team to unravel origin of devastating kiwifruit bacterium

        Virginia Tech and University of Tuscia lead international research team to unravel origin of devastating kiwifruit bacterium

    An international research team led by Virginia Tech Associate Professor Boris Vinatzer and Giorgio Balestra of the University of Tuscia in Italy has used the latest DNA sequencing technology to trace a devastating pathogen back to its likely origin.

    Vinatzer and Giorgio published a paper on May 9 in the journal PLoS ONE, which is the first study released in a scientific journal to trace the bacterium back to its likely origin of China.

    Continue reading about tracing this kiwifruit bacterium.

 

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