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Published online 20 April 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050418-9
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Genome blasts open rice research
Sequence of fungal blight should help save crops.
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the world's most devastating rice fungus, opening the door to the development of crops that can resist infection.
The fungus, called Magnaporthe grisea, is responsible for rice blast, a disease that destroys enough rice to feed 60 million people each year.
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