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The isolation and characterization of Pik, a rice blast resistance gene which emerged after rice domestication.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2011
Zhai Chun, Lin Fei, Dong Zhongqiu, He Xiuying, Yuan Bin, Zeng Xiaoshan, Wang Ling, Pan Qinghua
Abstract excerpt
• The rice-rice blast pathosystem is of great interest, not only because of the damaging potential of rice blast to the rice crop, but also because both the pathogen and its host are experimentally amenable. The rice blast resistance gene Pik, which is one of the five classical alleles located at the Pik locus on the long arm of chromosome 11, confers high and stable resistance to many Chinese rice blast...
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