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2018-07-16 Africa Subsaharan

The next panic? West African States in Joint Fight against Root Crop 'Ebola'

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 first discovered in Tanzania eight decades ago

Let's see...that's 80 YEARS!
Guess intertribal fighting, eating their neighbors and ousting the whites took priority.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-16 02:16|| 2018-07-16 02:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like the situation that brought most of Ireland to the US a few years ago.

Posted by Glenmore 2018-07-16 09:59|| 2018-07-16 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Just so you know there is a GMO cassava that is bred to be resistant to this virus but you know better to have people starve than plant this stuff. The process doesn't use pesticides but inserts some of the viral DNA into the plant. The plant's DNA repair code spots something fishy and stops the replication of the virus proteins. I think this was discovered with petunias when they tried to make a really dark flower by inserting mutiple copies of the gene for purple. They were surprised to see all the plants bloomed white since they managed to turn off all the genes need to make the ourple pigment. I'm sure this is same pathway used to turn off the relication of the virusp. BTW Monsanto had a potato that was engineered to be virus resistant. The potato virus makes those brown diamonds you sometimes see in the flesh. This virus is spread by aphids so the only recourse was massive spraying of insecticides. The Japanese IIRC didn't want the GMO potato so it was scuttled when a newer generation of insecticides was approved for potato.

Posted by Thrise Shomble3667 2018-07-16 16:23|| 2018-07-16 16:23|| Front Page Top

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