CR UK manager: M. Gilmour
In the absence of any economic cure for Witches’ Broom disease, the development of an effective control agent requires knowledge about the causal fungus, Crinipellis perniciosa. An effective control programme for the disease will require inhibition of the growth/reproduction of the pathogen at some stage in its life cycle. The project will investigate the developmental biology of the fungus during the disease cycle in the cocoa tree variability, evolutionary history and variability over time. The range of strains will be identified and made available for future testing of the performance of control strategies.
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