Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Control of Rice Blast Disease

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wang, Guo-Liang (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Valent, Barbara (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Microbiology.; Plant genetics.; Plant pathology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Pathology.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea, is one of the most destructive rice diseases worldwide and destroys enough rice to feed more than 60 million people annually. Due to high variability of the fungal population in the field, frequent loss of resistance of newly-released ric...