National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA)

The Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA; English: National Institute of Agricultural Research) is a French public research institute dedicated to agricultural science

Scrapie could breach the species barrier

INRA scientists have shown for the first time that the pathogens responsible for scrapie in small ruminants (prions) have the potential to convert the human prion protein from a healthy state to a pathological state. In mice models reproducing the human species barrier, this prion induces a disease similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. These primary results

Scrapie could breach the species barrier

Resistance gene found against Ug99 wheat stem rust pathogen

The world’s food supply got a little more plentiful thanks to a scientific breakthrough. Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, and his colleague, Jorge Dubcovsky from the University of California-Davis, led a research project that identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races

Resistance gene found against Ug99 wheat stem rust pathogen

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