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Building a rail link across the northern highlands is a dream that has eluded global capitalists, British imperialists, Chinese state planners and Myanmar governments.

While many celebrate apple blossoms as a sign of spring, they are also welcoming entry gates for pathogens. Full of nutrients to lure pollinators and promote pollen germination, flowers also attract bacteria like Erwinia amylavora, a pathogen that causes a damaging disease called fire blight. However, recent work by scientists at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station suggests that these flowery infection sites might also be perfect targets for applying microbial fire blight biocontrol...