TY  - JOUR
AV  - restricted
A1  - Varshney, R K
A1  - Godwin, I D
A1  - Mohapatra, T
A1  - Jones, J D G
A1  - McCouch, S R
TI  - A SWEET solution to rice blight
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0302-0
JF  - Nature Biotechnology (TSI)
SN  - 1087-0156
PB  - Nature Research
N2  - Bacterial blight is an important disease of rice that is particularly destructive in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, exacerbated by the heavy rains of the monsoon seasons. Estimated crop loss due to bacterial blight may be as high as 75%, with millions of hectares of rice affected annually. In this issue, an international team of researchers describes the use of CRISPR editing to generate rice plants that are broadly resistant to the main pathogen that causes rice blight, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo)1. To enhance the durability and 
management of resistance, the team has also developed a kit to trace the disease, and its virulence and resistance alleles2.
KW  - Rice
KW  -  Plant Disease
Y1  - 2019/10//
SP  - 1280
ID  - icrisat11485
EP  - 1282
VL  - 37
IS  - 11
ER  -