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Published online 28 November 2007 | Nature 450, 596 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450596b
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Plant-disease controls sap outbreak responses
'Bioweapons' restrictions threaten to hamper research.
Microbiologists in the United States are expressing concern about a government proposal to limit research on several plant pathogens because of their potential to be used as bioweapons. The researchers say that the plan to subject rice and citrus disease agents to the same restrictions as Ebola virus and anthrax are ill-conceived and will limit the response to a natural outbreak.
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