date:Feb 22, 2017
A new portable diagnostic tool for identifying the devastating zebra chip disease may bring faster and more accurate results to stem its spread, according to New Zealand scientists.
Zebra chip is a bacteria which alters a plant's metabolism and burns striped patches in potatoes, making both the potato and its seed inedible and unmarketable.
According to Dr Grant Smith who is a plant pathologist with the Plant and Food Research institute in New Zealand has been developing the tool as current te