tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165769205232647877.post2420914374107277981..comments2024-02-29T13:27:35.920+00:00Comments on Communicate Science: Anti-GM campaigners can't have it both waysEoin Letticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071259029480033661noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165769205232647877.post-78785495772719741922010-06-17T09:58:51.569+01:002010-06-17T09:58:51.569+01:00Thanks for your comment Mitchell.
I may well have...Thanks for your comment Mitchell. <br />I may well have oversimplified the differences between the oomycetes and the fungi. I fully accept your point but for the general reader, the ease of bunching them in with the fungal-plant pathogens (as Agrios does)is useful from a plant-pathology point of view. From a taxonomic point of view, I can see why that would be frowned upon :)<br />Thanks for reading.Eoin Letticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01071259029480033661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165769205232647877.post-27872074320279676492010-06-16T10:04:06.955+01:002010-06-16T10:04:06.955+01:00I enjoyed the article, but feel obliged to point o...I enjoyed the article, but feel obliged to point out that the differences between oomycetes (which is what Phytophthora is) and fungi are not 'very minor'. You might as well say that bats are birds, for all practical purposes, as the differences are 'very minor' (and bats and birds are more recently-diverged from each other...) ;)<br /><br />Oomycetes are heterokonts, with a number of highly significant differences from fungi (see, for example, http://www.apsnet.org/online/feature/oomycetes/). Even from a purely practical point of view, the (major) differences in cell wall composition may affect potential control methods.Mitchell Selfdrivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14229104204090148018noreply@blogger.com