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This project focuses on understanding rice blast disease, a significant threat to global food security caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. By integrating advanced genetic and imaging techniques, it aims to uncover the mechanisms of fungal infection and plant immunity to develop effective control strategies.
Plant diseases represent one of the most important risks to ensuring global food security and new control strategies for the world’s most serious crop diseases are urgently needed.
This project will lead to an unparalleled advance in understanding of the world’s most serious crop disease - rice blast.
Each year rice blast disease claims 11-30% of the potential rice harvest, which is enough rice to feed 60 million people.
The fungus that causes rice blast disease, Magnaporthe oryzae, is a highly…
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