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Ingenious Diagnostics Combat Global Plant Disease

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Uploaded by on Sep 21, 2010

Plant pathologist, Dr. Naidu Rayapati, is using a deceptively simple technology to help diagnose crop diseases in developing countries.
Small FTA Classic cards are used in the field to obtain plant samples, which can be easily transported to Washington State University for diagnosis using state-of-the-art lab equipment. His work offers hope for millions of people for whom crop failure can mean poverty and starvation.

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  • I think this is really interesting. Innovation isn´t just to develop new technologies, but to find new uses for the the ones we already have.

    Actually, I will show this tomorrow to my Molecular Diagnosis class. We´re starting with "Diagnostic of plant virus diseases" topic and this will really give an idea of how the world is doing it now.

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