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Effectiveness and durability of the rice pi-ta gene in Yunnan province of China.
Phytopathology - 1 Jul 2014
Li Jinbin, Lu Lin, Jia Yulin, Li Chengyun
Abstract excerpt
Rice blast is one of the most damaging diseases of rice worldwide. In the present study, we analyzed DNA sequence variation of avirulence (AVR) genes of AVR-Pita1 in field isolates of Magnaporthe oryzae in order to understand the effectiveness of the resistance gene Pi-ta in China. Genomic DNA of 366 isolates of M. oryzae collected from Yunnan province of China were used for polymerase chain reaction (PCR)...
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