date:Nov 21, 2012
The third day of the Interpoma Congress was opened by Ton den Nijs, researcher from the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, with his report on durable multigene resistance for new apple varieties through cisgenesis, a solution to protect plants from diseases without adopting chemical treatments.
According to the researchers findings in fact, with this technique orchards maintain a high quality of the cultivar over time, and at the same time the introduction of foreign genes in nearby