Progress in research on broad-spectrum disease resistance genes in rice in China

Progress in research on broad-spectrum disease resistance genes in rice in China

Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, June 15 (Reporter Li Wei, Xiong Xianghe) The reporter learned from Huazhong Agricultural University that Professor Li Guotian's team had discovered a new rice broad-spectrum disease resistance gene RBL12. The field experiment results showed that RBL12 could recover about 40% of the yield loss in the case of rice blast disease in the field...