How do we use genomics in our research on plant pathogens?

By Guillaume Bilodeau and Emily Giroux

This blog post was originally published to Cultivating Science on science.gc.ca.

My kids always ask me, "Dad what is your job? What do you do at work?"

My response is simple, "I work with DNA. I use DNA to identify diseases affecting plants."

"DNA as in Mr DNA in the Jurassic Park movie?!" they ask.

"Yes, like Mr DNA. I try to find differences in the DNA of organisms so I can develop markers to help us detect particular plant disease-causing fungi."

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