Breakthrough in devastating bean disease

Researchers have uncovered the root of faba bean gall disease which is destroying bean crops in Ethiopia and China.

Scientists at the University of Western Australia School of Agriculture and Environment have definitively determined the pathogen behind the infection.

Rural editor Eddie Summerfield caught up with Professor Martin Barbetti who says the breakthrough is significant:

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