Source: Helen Chappell, NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/29/11

 

On farmland around the globe, a silent war rages between crops and the diseases that attack them. Crop diseases cost the world an estimated $220 billion every year and put millions at risk of starvation.
But with a little help from scientists, crops - and we who depend on them - may soon gain the upper hand.

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