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Fresh Plaza: Wild mangoes could hold the key to increasing resistance to a devastating disease of the commercial crop. Mango anthracnose is a fungal disease which can cause large, sunken black bruises on the fruit, making it unsaleable. While the disease can be controlled with chemical sprays,
most of the commercial varieties have little or poor natural resistance. So researchers in Queensland are now looking at the wild relatives of mangoes to see if they could provide a genetic boost to resistance levels. However, principal horticulturalist Dr Ian Bally says genetically modified mangoes aren't on the horizon. "Genetic engineering theoretically is
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possible, but there's a couple of steps in the process that require tissue culturing and regeneration of mangoes from tissue culture and that technology is not well developed in mango and probably would be a bit of a barrier." Source: Fresh Plaza
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possible, but there's a couple of steps in the process that require tissue culturing and regeneration of mangoes from tissue culture and that technology is not well developed in mango and probably would be a bit of a barrier." Source: Fresh Plaza
