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Friday, 05-06-2026 | 07:46
Rice blast is a destructive rice disease caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Here, we identified a resistance gene from the rice cultivar Wanhui 66 which is resistant to the rice blast Guy11 isolate. Genetic mapping positioned a blast resistance locus to chromosome 6. Employing map-based cloning approach ultimately mapped the novel blast resistance locus to a genomic region of 117 kb that contains the Pid3 gene.



