Fungicide technology could help prevent the loss of crops

Fungicide technology could help prevent crop loss

10/07/2015

shutterstock_73699468small An expert in environmental toxins at the University of Nottingham has developed a new antifungal technology that could play an important role in obtaining future food.

And is that Professor Simon Avery of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University discovered that two agents, when combined, affect the process of protein synthesis, which can effectively block the growth of fungi that cause diseases in the crops or in humans.

Currently, millions of tons of crops in developed countries are ruined each year by fungi and the problem is even more serious in developing countries, because they have limited access to fungicides.