{"id":575324,"date":"2019-02-05T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a516c7bac39708359eb9967ce92f572c"},"modified":"2019-02-05T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:44:40","slug":"biotechnology-to-the-rescue-of-brussels-sprouts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=575324","title":{"rendered":"Biotechnology to the rescue of Brussels sprouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Brussels, China or Milan. &#8220;Surnames&#8221; aside, cabbages are grown nowadays all over the world. Like them, many other plants from the Brassicaceae family such as cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage and even mustard&#8230; yes, strange as it may seem and though their tastes are very different, a Brussels sprout and a mustard seed belong to the same family&#8230;have a common enemy. The enemy is white rust, or at least one kind of white rust. Specifically, cabbages are threatened by a disease caused by a pathogen called Albugo candida, which acts exactly like a fungus, though it is not actually a fungus. That is to say, it spreads under the right conditions of humidity and temperature and eats up the nutrients of the plants it attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Brussels, China or Milan. &#8220;Surnames&#8221; aside, cabbages are grown nowadays all over the world. Like them, many other plants from the Brassicaceae family such as cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage and even mustard&#8230; yes, strange as it may seem and though&#8230;<\/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-575324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575324","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=575324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575325,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575324\/revisions\/575325"}],"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=575324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}