Common Disease Findings
Science Reporters' Seminar on Genome-Wide Association Studies ( genome.gov ) Francis Collins, MD, Ph.D. Former Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
Apple scab- a common disease of apples and pears
(error-variety is Lord Lambourne) Sorry about this sick video, please skip if you prefer. This is a video about a nasty disease which is sadly all too common. Scab is a fungal disease which affects every part of the tree, it turns the leaves dirty brown so the tree is sapped of energy, and also causes dark spots on the apples which cause deformity. Customers can be very picky-they woudl prefer it if you did not spray, but will usually reject an apple with scab spots on it. The organic people ahve done a lot of effective propaganda, with much talk about hormone disrupters and carcinogens, but the rules for pesticide applicateion and storage are very strict and as most of the spraying is done early in the season there are effectively no residues in the apples at harvest. Pesticide use in food production is like vaccination and contraception- they are interference with nature we'd prefer not to have to bother with, but the reality is, we wouldn't like the result if they were withdrawn. Because the wind (and our small-scale inefficiencies) meant we couldn't apply pesticide when we needed to this spring, we have a couple of outbreaks (scab and sawfly) and I estimate the crop is already down by 30%. This may not be as bad as it sounds, since I haven't done all the fruit thinning yet, but its not good. We need new apple varieties which have natural resistance to scab and other diseases. I would welcome GM gene transfer from resistant apples if normal plant breeding isn;t ...
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What are the 5 common diseases in the Philippines that is caused by bacteria?This is an assignment of my cousin. She need the 5 common diseases that is cause by bacteria. These diseases should be common in the Philippines.
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err... phlippines ai
let me see...
pneumonia, sphilis, gonorrhoea, typhoid and diarrhoea
hop i get the 10 points coz dats all i got
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