New model shows how crop rotation helps combat plant pests
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

A new computational model shows how different patterns of crop rotation-planting different crops at different times in the same field-can impact long-term yield when the crops are threatened by plant pathogens. Maria Bargués-Ribera and Chaitanya Gokhale of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Germany present the model in PLOS Computational Biology.