Plant Pathology: A Life and Death Struggle in Rice Blast Disease.
The fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae causes severe disease symptoms and yield losses on rice plants. A new study shows that this fungus elicits disease lesions by co-opting a host protein and reveals how rice plants fight back.
The State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China. Electronic address: jmzhou@genetics.ac.cn.
Jian-Min
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Zhou
D020082:Magnaporthe; D012275:Oryza; D010935:Plant Diseases; D061066:Plant Pathology