Research report 2023 - Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen
On the hunt for the origins and causes of agricultural disease outbreaks
Authors
McCann, Honour
Departments
Max Planck Forschungsgruppe Evolution pflanzlicher Krankheitserreger
Summary
What are the origins of new disease outbreaks in agriculture? How do pathogens evolve to infect new hosts and adapt to agricultural environments? These are some of the questions we are tackling, while pursuing disease outbreaks in kiwifruit orchards across South Korea and in banana grown across the Indonesian Archipelago.