In some years, rice blast disease destroys more than one quarter of the harvest worldwide. But it's hard to fight with current methods. Researchers have now discovered how the fungus breeches the ...
Professor Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, UC Davis Department of Plant Biology, has discovered a compound that could fight fungal diseases in plants including grapes and rice. (Sasha Bakhter/UC Davis ...
A fungus that plagues rice crops worldwide gains entry to plant cells in a way that leaves it vulnerable to simple chemical blockers, a discovery that could lead to new fungicides to reduce the ...