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Promoter mutations of an essential gene for pollen development result in disease resistance in rice.
Genes & development - 15 May 2006
Chu Zhaohui, Yuan Meng, Yao Jialing, Ge Xiaojia, Yuan Bin, Xu Caiguo, Li Xianghua, Fu Binying, Li Zhikang, Bennetzen Jeffrey L, Zhang Qifa, Wang Shiping
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Disease resistance and sexual reproductive development are generally considered as separate biological processes, regulated by different sets of genes. Here we show that xa13, a recessive allele conferring disease resistance against bacterial blight, one of the most devastating rice diseases worl...
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