Study IDs secret of stealthy invader essential to ruinous rice disease

The virulence of a rice-wrecking fungus relies on genetic decoding quirks that could prove central to stopping it, says new research. The research team hopes that identifying an essential but formerly unknown stage in the fungal takeover of rice cells can accelerate the treatment or prevention of rice blast disease, which ruins up to 30% of global yields each year.

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