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JOHANNESBURG, March 19 - Tiger Brands has closed its factory in Pretoria after listeria was detected at the plant as South Africa faces the worst global outbreak of the disease that has killed 180 people since January 2017.

«When you look at overall dietary patterns it's a more whole - foods, plant - based diet that tends to be healthier in terms of less disease risk,» Anselmo said.

In contrast, when you look at the «Blue Zones», populations of people who have the longest life spans, and lowest incidence of disease, they almost all consume a 90 - 95 % + plant - based diet.

The win / win benefits to not only the environment but also health care — with plant - based diets known to reduce heart disease, diabetes, several types of cancer, and obesity (currently at a shocking 23 per cent, with 60 per cent of Canadians overweight)-- make this negligence incomprehensible.»

We do this by helping improve plant breeds, better manage increasingly scarce resources such as water, and keep pests and diseases at bay.

Dr Washington Otieno, executive of the Plantwise programme at CABI explained how they provide «plant doctors» to small holder farmers to reduce crop losses and prevent further spread of disease.

Washington is the Plantwise Programme Executive at CABI and he spoke about a plant pest and disease diagnostic tool which is in use in many developing countries in Africa.

In fact, Dr. Michael Greger (one of my favorite plant - based doctors and author of the new book, How Not to Die) says berries and greens are two of the top foods that have been proven to be the most powerful at fighting disease, aging, and minor health issues throughout years of research.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

The disease was detected on a cow carcass taken in for rendering last Wednesday at an animal - rendering plant in Hanford, Calif., said Dennis Luckey, vice president of Baker Commodities Inc., a Los Angeles - based processor of animal byproducts that operates the facility.

He mentioned the Free Seedlings Distribution programme which provides early bearing and high yielding planting materials to farmers at no cost, the Free Fertilizer Distribution Programme which is helping to improve upon soil fertility and increase yield, the National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme which has facilitated the replanting of large hectares of over-aged, moribund and diseased farms as well as the Youth in Cocoa Initiative which is curbing the ageing - cocoa - farmers situation in Ghana.

Dr. Rob Ostfeld, a cardiologist at Montefiore says eating more plants and eating less animal products is the best way to prevent heart disease and other diet - related illnesses.

After receiving her Ph.D., Nelson headed off to the Philippines to study plant disease and genetic mapping at the International Rice Research Institute, where she was partly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

In a 2006 review of 842 scientific papers on omega - 3 fatty acids and cardiovascular disease, a research team based at the TuftsNew England Medical Center in Boston concluded that only EPA and DHA seemed beneficial — ALA, their plant - produced precursor, was not.

Planting huge acreages with a single variety of the same genetic makeup meant the entire harvest could be wiped out at once by disease or pests or changes in rainfall.

Early activation of the plant's defences means that symptoms of the disease are displayed at an earlier stage when the fungus does not have the capacity to spread any further.

Most research looks at aging in older people, but the seeds of age - related diseases are planted decades earlier — that's why these researchers believe it's crucial to study aging in the young.

«When we examined the associations of the three food categories with heart disease risk, we found that healthy plant foods were associated with lower risk, whereas less healthy plant foods and animal foods were associated with higher risk,» said Ambika Satija, ScD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and the study's lead author.

Understanding how this immune system is regulated at the appropriate level of activity gives the researchers more ideas of points in the immune signaling pathway that could targeted to increase the plant's baseline ability to resist disease.

This year Roberto Docampo, a professor of veterinary pathobiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, found that the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which causes crown gall disease in plants, does indeed have organelles.

José Luis Hernández Mendoza, at the Laboratory of Experimental Biotechnology, explains that this region was isolated and the fungus Trichoderma koningiopsis was to counter the scourge of Phymatotrichum omnívora, which generates the Texas rot, main disease of the plant.

Jay Keasling, a chemical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of several investigators trying to make ethanol and related fuels from plants such as switchgrass, which grows quickly and resists many pests and diseases.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

The results suggest that bacteria can travel far from their plant hosts while maintaining the ability to make ice; they also hint at how airborne bacteria could play a role in the spread of plant disease.

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Working at the Ghent University Medical School in Belgium, Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell (who died in 2003) had been investigating the genetics of a plant disease called crown gall.

Also, climate change may allow some tropical and subtropical crops to thrive at mid-latitudes where they previously did not grow, but such changes could also improve conditions for crop pests and the spread of plant and animal diseases.

Plants in nature and agriculture that are stressed by drought, diseases or insects will mount defensive responses, and at the same time will typically stop growing or grow more slowly.

The sequence is a «big deal» says John Taylor, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, because filamentous Ascomycota such as N. crassa are involved in most plant diseases.

«Powdery mildew disease causes the leaves of the grapevines to lose their chlorophyll and stop producing sugar,» said Walter Gassmann, an investigator at the Bond Life Sciences Center and professor in the Division of Plant Sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources at MU.

I mean, if there is existing literature studies looking at those plants where they found active compound [s], I definitely will use that, but first I am trying to show that there is a pattern — that if you do some math and try to synthesize all this information about the different plants being used in different cultures for different diseases, and using the evolutionary relationships of the plants, the cultures and the diseases to sort of merge it all together and have these equations spit out a sort of potential efficacy — our best guess of what the efficacy of this plant is.

«There is no proof of transmission from wild animals and plants to humans,» said lead author Claudio Soto, Ph.D., professor of neurology at UTHealth Medical School and director of the UTHealth George and Cynthia W. Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain Related Illnesses.

On the research applications front, Dr. Chia Tet Fatt, a young scientist from the Natural Sciences Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, revealed Singapore's very first genetically modified organism (GMO)-- a transgenic resveratrol producing red lettuce for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular diseases — which was developed by introducing the stilbene synthase gene into a red plant and diverting the precursors into resveratrol synthesis.

Because bartonellosis cases also spike a few months after rising temperatures are registered, there is time to spray for sand flies in endemic areas, said Nelson Solórzano, who heads the bartonellosis unit at the hospital in Caraz The best investment now, Wilson said, would be in setting up regional surveillance networks of climatologists, entomologists and experts in human, animal and even plant diseases.

Bletter: My main research for my PhD is in Peru, in the Peruvian Amazon, and in Mali in West Africa, and I am looking at the medicinal plants used there in traditional societies and indigenous groups for parasitic diseases like malaria, autoimmune diseases like diabetes and eczema and uterine fibroids, and trying to see if there is an overlap, so that if people in Peru and Mali are using a similar species to treat the same disease, that's a good bet that it is something effective, because they have independently found something useful, you know?

A pro-vegetarian diet — one that has a higher proportion of plant - based foods compared to animal - based foods is linked to lower risks of dying from heart disease and stroke, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association EPI / Lifestyle 2015 meeting.

Plant breeders at universities and seed companies have invested thousands of man - years in breeding crops resistant to diseases since that time.

Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and Virginia Tech have discovered a new mechanism in the continual arms race between plants and pathogenic bacteria, which tomatoes use to detect the causal agent of bacterial speck disease.

Attack at the protein front: Xanthomonas bacteria cause diseases in tomato and pepper plants and inject harmful proteins into plant cells.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Crop scientists at Washington State University have explained how genes in the barley plant turn on defenses against aging and stressors like drought, heat and disease.

Despite the vast resources spent each year on crop protection applications, crop damage is estimated at 37 percent due to plant pests and diseases occurring to a large extent because of loss of pesticide efficacy related to pesticide clumping, drying and run off.

«As Program Director of Virology, he and his coworkers were at the forefront of new and fascinating studies using the electron microscope to detect and characterize viruses and phytoplasmas in cells of diseased plants and insect vectors.»

His group may look for a gene variant that may make these plants better at fighting off disease, for example.

They use natural plant centromeres (a key part of chromosomes needed for their inheritance), promoters (gene activation sites), and gene - termination sequences to assemble linear or circular minichromosomes that contain at least a dozen genes that can improve crops by promoting traits like pest and disease resistance.

The first was my father, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, and his groundbreaking research at Cleveland Clinic demonstrating how a plant - based diet could reverse heart disease.

So if you want to prevent and reverse disease, do what's best for all of us collectively, and kick ass in sport and life, adopting a plant - based, or at least plant - centric approach to your plate is the most powerful and impactful choice you can make as a conscious consumer.

An exhaustive look at the literature reveals something very important — eating a low - fat, plant - based, whole - food diet containing cholesterol lowering foods not only reduces your LDL cholesterol level, but can drop your heart disease risk to effectively zero (28 — 31).

Study of healthy, degenerative disease - free Ancestral Cultures demonstrates a preference for Vitamin A rich foods with plant foods containing carotenes consumed at a much lower rate.

Looking at myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease, fish protein was apparently protective (perhaps because it comes with omega - 3 fats), animal protein was neutral (as we would expect from healthy protein, which is fairly innocuous health-wise), and plant protein was harmful (as we would expect from toxins).

A lot of my patients have also raised the question that native tribes eat meat and yet remain heart disease free.Well that nots really the full picture.First of all «native tribes» in their normal environment will eat meat if they can get it but most of the time, they are not successful at hunting, so most of their diet probably a good 80 - 90 % is plant based.Also remember that they hardly ever eat sugar and most definitely not any oil.