Taking apart and rebuilding plant genes. From: Agricultural Research | Date: January 1, 1993| Author: De Quattro, Jim | COPYRIGHT 1993 U.S. Government Printing Office. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service's Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, located in Beltsville, MD, are redesigning soybean, tomato, rice, potato, sugar beet and other crop plants' genes. Plant pathologist Peter Ueng, for example is trying to enhance wheat's genetic ability to combat leaf and glume blotch, which is caused by Septoria fungi.

Plants constantly struggle as they sprout from seed, grow, mature, and bear fruit and new seed. But no sign of this struggle is vi...

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