Plant diseases are responsible for substantial crop losses each year and pose a threat to
global food security and agricultural sustainability. Improving crop resistance to pathogens …

Rice is a global food grain crop for more than one-third of the human population and a
source for food and nutritional security. Rice production is subjected to various stresses; …

Rice is one of the most important food crops in the world, and staple for more than half of the
global population. Looming water crisis, water-intensive nature of rice cultivation and …

Magnaporthe grisea is the most destructive pathogen of rice worldwide and the principal
model organism for elucidating the molecular basis of fungal disease of plants. Here, we …

Rice is a staple and most important security food crop consumed by almost half of the
world's population. More rice production is needed due to the rapid population growth in the …

Transplanting after repeated puddling is the conventional method of rice (Oryza sativa)
growing which is not only intensive water user but also cumbersome and laborious. Different …

In the past 10 years, interest in applying the tools of molecular genetics to the problem of
increasing world rice production has resulted in the generation of two highly saturated …

Rice blast (M agnaporthe oryzae) and sheath blight (R hizoctonia solani) are the two most
devastating diseases of rice (O ryza sativa), and have severe impacts on crop yield and …

Rice blast caused by Magnaporthe grisea is the major damaging disease in nearly all rice
growing nations. Economically relevance with 60 percent of total population of world …

Rice is life for more than half of humanity. It is the grain that has shaped the cultures, diets,
and economies of billions of people in the world. Food security in the world is challenged by …