"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 ...

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.

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

including those impacted by other rice diseases like Sheath Blight and Rice Blast. The product also proved fully compatible with existing farming practices, making it a promising option for both ...

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

Pathogen inoculation and disease resistance assays revealed that knockout of PIBP4 significantly decreased PigmR-mediated blast resistance ... bursts in rice. This research discovers a previously ...

"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 ...

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 ...