It improves water retention, crop yield, nutrient value, taste, color, texture and disease resistance.

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Instead, he claimed, better nutrition, caused by better farming practices, was the chief cause of better disease resistance.

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The new strawberries are bred by crossing UK and international varieties that contain desirable traits such as being disease resistance, high productivity and temperature tolerance.

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Grains in particular have been intensively engineered over millennia for higher yields, pest- and disease-resistance and various desirable characteristics.

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That triggers a host of problems including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, insulin resistance and diabetes.

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Andrew Read, an infectious disease specialist and professor at Pennsylvania State University, raised a similar question about resistance in infectious disease.

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Drug resistance and disease progression have been observed all for anticancer drugs that target specific genetic alterations.

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To digress for a moment, it was biologist Felix Meerson who showed that high-altitude chambers where oxygen supply is limited, triggers an adaptive response that produces humans with profound mental capabilities and resistance against disease.

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It is therefore a logical place to look for natural resistance to the disease.

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But now some domesticated ducks have developed resistance to the disease.

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To meet the growing food demands humans will need to find ever higher yielding strains with resistance to drought, disease, and anything else the future might throw at us.

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Undurraga is particularly concerned about the NARMS findings because it means the consumption of meat is adding to what the director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, last year called a "post-antibiotic era" in which antibiotics will no longer work to fight disease because too many bacteria have developed resistance to it.

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Undurraga is particularly concerned about the NARMS findings because it means the consumption of meat is adding to what the director of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, last year called a "post-antibiotic era, " or an era in which antibiotics will no longer work to fight disease because too many bacteria have developed resistance to it.

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Disease and malnutrition are the main killers here, but the rebel Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, is also a constant threat.

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