Genes Identified to Protect Brassicas from Disease

Scientists have identified a **new way to breed brassicas**, which include broccoli, cabbage and oilseed rape, resistant to a **damaging virus**. Their discovery has characterised a form of resistance that appears to be durable, broad-spectrum and unlikely to be overcome by the virus over time. **Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV)** is an economically devastating virus that infects a wide range of cultivated plants, but especially brassicas. In research published recently in the Journal of General Virology, scientists at Warwick HRI and collaborators have identified genes that confer resistance to the virus and, crucially, as **multiple genes** are involved, provide resistance that the virus appears not to have been able to evolve to overcome. Whole article on "Bio":[ http://www.bio.com/newsfeatures/newsfeatures_research.jhtml;jsessionid=X20T1LWQYAHV1R3FQLMCFEWHUWBNSIV0?cid=34900002]

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