{"id":4182,"date":"2015-02-22T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2015-02-08T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T17:31:32","slug":"how-raindrops-spread-pathogens-among-plants-mit-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=4182","title":{"rendered":"How Raindrops Spread Pathogens Among Plants &#8211; MIT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from MIT and the University of Liege, in Belgium, have shown through high-speed images of raindrops splashing down on leaves that raindrops can act as a dispersing agent of contaminated droplets from one plant to another. (Learn more:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1DdF2lB\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1DdF2lB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1DdF2lB<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Historical weather records suggest that rainfall may scatter rust and other pathogens throughout a plant population, the mechanism by which this occurs has not be explored, until now.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9l--FdUEBRA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video: Melanie Gonick\/MIT<br \/>\nHigh-speed splash images: Tristan Gilet and Lydia Bourouiba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from MIT and the University of Liege, in Belgium, have shown through high-speed images of raindrops splashing down on leaves that raindrops can act as a dispersing agent of contaminated droplets from one plant to another. (Learn more:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/1DdF2lB) Historical weather records suggest that rainfall may scatter rust and other pathogens throughout a plant population, the mechanism by which this occurs has not be explored, until now.\u00a0 Video: Melanie Gonick\/MIT High-speed splash images: Tristan Gilet and Lydia Bourouiba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","tag-mit-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4184,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}