#JJC2026 Pierre-Michel Marty @phimresearch.bsky.social shows that host heterogeneity impacts demographic history of the #RiceBlast #pathogen in the traditional agrosystem of Yuanyang terraces (Yunnan, China)

The N-mannosyltransferase MoAlg9 plays important roles in the development and #pathogenicity of #Magnaporthe oryzae
🟢https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2023.10.027
#plantpathology #plantfugus #riceblast

Directed evolution of a plant immune receptor for broad spectrum recognition of pathogen effectors Rapid development of immune receptors that protect crops from emerging pathogens is a paramount goal. We applied high throughput directed evolution to the ligand binding domain of the rice immune rece...

The final session today is opened by @pcronald.bsky.social talking about plant disease resistance alleles & a cool directed evolution approach to engineer broad-spectrum pathogen resistance receptors using #riceblast as a model

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#KSFutureAg25 #KSSustainFuture25
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Population structure and pathogenicity tests of Pyricularia oryzae on wild and cultivated rice in Mali – BSPP – The British Society for Plant Pathology

🚨 New blog post on the #BSPP website! 🚨
Dive into the population structure and #pathogenicity of #PyriculariaOryzae on wild and cultivated #rice in Mali 🌾🍚 What role does wild rice play in rice blast epidemics? #PlantPathology #RiceBlast
Read more: www.bspp.org.uk/population-s...

Vittoria Brambilla and three of her colleagues from her and Fabio Fornara's labs at the University of Milano are standing in a agricultural field, holding trays with rice seedlings in their hands. They are ready to plant the rice seedlings into the prepared soil. Image from Fabio Fornara: https://twitter.com/fornaralab/status/1790034062121271655

The first gene-edited #rice 🌾 plants are currently being planted in Italy. These plants are edited to be more resistant against the #RiceBlast fungus #Pyricularia oryzae.

Fantastic effort by @vittoriab.bsky.social, Fabio Fornara and their colleagues!

More 👉 www.nature.com/articles/d43...