Numerous fungal diseases threaten rice crops. @nature, researchers identify a gene that makes rice susceptible to multiple fungal pathogens. In field-based experiments, rice crops in which this gene was disrupted showed resistance to several fungal diseases.
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SnRK1β1A in rice promotes susceptibility to multiple fungal diseases, and disrupting this infection-inducible gene confers broad-spectrum resistance without compromising growth or yield under normal f...
