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First CRISPR’d rice with multi-pathogen resistance

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Lesion mimic mutants (LMMs) constitutively and spontaneously display genetic lesions (necrotic spots of dead cells) in the absence of pathogenic infection, identical to disease-caused lesions due to likeness between the non-pathogenic and pathogenic syndromes associated with hypersensitive response and cell death. The broad-spectrum, nonrace-specific resistance expressed by these mutants to fungal and bacterial rice pathogens …

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Catalase genes as a handle for manipulating rice blast resistance

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Effectors, predominantly of proteinaceous in nature are secretions by pathogenic bacteria and, filamentous oomycete and fungi intended to neutralise the first layer of defense termed pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) also termed as basal immunity in the two-layered plant defense strategy. While in the second layer of defense, effectors are recognised by the host resistance proteins directly …

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