{"id":418182,"date":"2017-12-15T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f828a5a0c81d12e0985b5dd9d116cd87"},"modified":"2017-12-15T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:08:04","slug":"potato-blights-chemical-attack-mechanism-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=418182","title":{"rendered":"Potato blight&#8217;s chemical attack mechanism explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international researchers headed by scientists from the University of T\u00fcbingen has deciphered the workings of a cytolytic toxin, which is produced by some of the world&#8217;s most devastating crop diseases. The Cytolysin is manufactured by pathogens such as bacteria and fungi and can wipe out entire harvests if chemical protection is not used. The study\u2014by researchers from T\u00fcbingen and their partner institutions in Berkeley, Bordeaux, Ljubljana, Li\u00e9ge, and Wako in Japan, as well as G\u00f6ttingen in Germany\u2014may lead to ways of better protecting crops from such pathogens in the future. The study has been published in the latest edition of Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international researchers headed by scientists from the University of T&uuml;bingen has deciphered the workings of a cytolytic toxin, which is produced by some of the world&#8217;s most devastating crop diseases. The Cytolysin is manufactured by pathogens such as bacteria and fungi and can wipe out entire harvests if chemical protection is not used. The study&mdash;by researchers from T&uuml;bingen and their partner institutions in Berkeley, Bordeaux, Ljubljana, Li&eacute;ge, and Wako in Japan, as well as G&ouml;ttingen in Germany&mdash;may lead to ways of better protecting crops from such pathogens in the future. The study has been published in the latest edition of Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418183,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418182\/revisions\/418183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}