Not exact matches
Professor Martin Donnelly, a corresponding author from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «We know that mosquito populations are rapidly
evolving resistance to insecticides, which is a serious threat to the
future of malaria control
in Africa.
Plant pathogens are continually
evolving, but
in the
future, the research team hope to be able to generate novel proteins with specifically integrated domains that give
resistance to pathogens, particularly new threats to our crops.
Herbicides can no longer control the weeds that threaten crop productivity and food security
in the UK because the plants have
evolved resistance, and
future control must depend on management strategies that reduce reliance on chemicals.