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- Title: Food Fight the Race Against a Wheat-Killing Fungus (N)
- Author : The Virginian Pilot
- Release Date : January 28, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in multiple layers of envelopes. // Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government scientists at the Cereal Disease Laboratory in St. Paul, Minn., suspended the fungal spores in a light mineral oil and sprayed them onto dozens of healthy wheat plants each day. After two weeks, the stalks were covered with deadly reddish blisters characteristic of the scourge known as Ug99. Nearly all of the plants were goners.