Researchers in Canada, UK say wastewater irrigation may be factor in Tomato virus spreading
A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada and the University of Oxford developed a highly targeted approach to identify the presence of Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit virus (ToBRFV) genomes in municipal wastewater in Ontario, Canada. The devastating plant pathogen, which has had a few occurrences over the past few years in […]
Raspberry development in processing and fresh sectors
On a recent trip to Chile, I took this photo in a raspberry production field. For me, it very neatly summed up the progress that has been made in raspberry breeding in the recent past. The variety on the left has been the industry standard type in the country for the last few decades. On […]
