It also has implications for the control of rice blast disease, because proteins that are involved in infection could be targets for the development of new fungicides.

"Much of our work focused on the pathogenic fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, which causes rice blast disease. Rice is a critically important food staple, and losses from rice blast could feed 60 million ...

Nontoxic disease control solution outperforms existing products and increases yields by up to 2 tons per hectare.

As agricultural cooperation between China and Pakistan deepens, more Pakistani researchers are coming to China to study and ...

Upon perception of blast pathogen effectors by the NLR ... leading to the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) bursts in rice. This research discovers a previously unknown mechanism ...

Rice can be just "blah," or this grain can be the belle of the ball. Once you pick the best type of rice for the dish you have in mind, you have another decision to make: the cooking liquid. Yes ...

specializing in rice breeding with a particular focus on combating rice blast disease (RBD). Keen to apply his expertise in Pakistan, Qamar is determined to develop effective strategies to help ...