Now, research published in Nature shows that the P-type ATPase Apt2 is required for tissue colonization and for efficient delivery of virulence-associated proteins by the fungus Magnaporthe grisea ...
"Much of our work focused on the pathogenic fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, which causes rice blast disease. Rice is a critically important food staple, and losses from rice blast could feed 60 ...
Since MLA immune receptors can also confer immunity to other microbial pathogens such as rust fungi and the rice blast fungus, gene-edited MLA receptors have the potential to protect these staple ...
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The KRIL37 strain was originally bred by another team in 2010 in an attempt to enhance Koshihikari’s resistance to rice blast fungus 2. Although KRIL37 proved not to be the most promising ...