We desperately need alternatives to antibiotics. Fortunately @UniMelb scientists are developing pom-pom shaped molecules that rip apart bacteria in minutes, are cheap to make, and most importantly - don't seem to lead to bacterial resistance
https://t.co/Dbs3llGPO6
@GeneticLiteracy@rice_matters Patent thickets, registration and nutritional analysis seem to go painfully hand in hand. Now lets look at those essential amino acids that are low in rice, and why they are low, and what might be the best efforts to painstakingly provide them.
@KHefferon@GeneticLiteracy Well, the organic researchers get a small fraction of funds, and they are a very innovative bunch of people. Open field biocontrol is decades behind and hopefully they will catch up. We need scientists that recognize the importance of advancing biocontrol. Ease up.
Plants have plasmid curing (at least a few have this activity ) and presumably this activity may be a defense against plasmid mediated traits (eg toxins and antibiotic activity and intestinal binding traits). We found it (plasmid curing) in Ethiopian barley.