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

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.

The discovery of a powerful "weapon" used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could offer new strategies to bolster global food ...