Food poisoning by Salmonella in lettuce plants can be avoided(06/20/2007) Can lettuce grown on soil infected by Salmonella bacteria itself be infected? Michel Klerks, scientist at Plant Research International, part of Wageningen UR, discovered that Salmonella bacteria spread on the plant as well as within the plant. ...
3 million for sequencing of the potato genome by Dutch Government(04/04/2006) The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium will start with the sequencing of the first potato chromosome, a project for which the Dutch government has decided to make 3 million euros available. Dutch researchers, working together with a worldwide group ...