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Current advance methods for the identification of blast resistance genes in rice.
Comptes rendus biologies - 1 May 2015
Tanweer Fatah A, Rafii Mohd Y, Sijam Kamaruzaman, Rahim Harun A, Ahmed Fahim, Latif Mohammad A
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Rice blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most devastating diseases of rice around the world and crop losses due to blast are considerably high. Many blast resistant rice varieties have been developed by classical plant breeding and adopted by farmers in various rice-growing countries. However, the variability in the pathogenicity of the blast fungus according to environment made blast disease a major...
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