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The ACE1 secondary metabolite gene cluster is a pathogenicity factor of wheat blast fungus

Communications Biology
Wheat blast caused by Pyricularia oryzae pathotype Triticum is now becoming a very serious threat to global food security. Here, we report an essential pathogenicity factor of the wheat blast fungus that is recognized and may be targeted by a rice ...
Trinh T. P. Vy, Yoshihiro Inoue, Soichiro Asuke, Izumi Chuma, Hitoshi Nakayashiki, Yukio Tosa   +5 more
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Transition of Race Distribution of Rice Blast Fungus in Korea over the Last Two Decades [PDF]

Research in Plant Disease
Since the nationwide outbreak of rice blast disease caused by Magnaporthe oryzae in Korea in the late 1970s, the Korean unique race differential system was developed, and numerous studies on rice blast disease and rice blast resistance have been ...
Dan-Dan Zhao, Hyunjung Chung, Soo Yeon Choi, Shinhwa Kim, Jung-Wook Yang, In-Jeong Kang, Sang-Min Kim, Yul-Ho Kim, Jang-Ho Lee, Yoon-Sung Lee   +9 more
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U.S. Agriculture, Biofuel Markets, and Trade: Challenges and Opportunities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an enhanced Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model (GTAP‐BIO), this study assesses how the expansion in demand for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and the reduction in exports of agricultural products induced by trade disputes negatively affect US agriculture.
Rayan Wolf, Farzad Taheripour
wiley   +1 more source

Adult-plant resistance of upland rice genotypes against blast (Pyricularia oryzae Cavara) in Metekel Zone, North West Ethiopia

Discover Agriculture
Rice blast disease, caused by Pyricularia oryzae Cavara is one of the main biotic factors and the most destructive of all rice diseases impeding rice production in more than 85 countries in the world.
Tesfaye Gudisa Waktola, Ararsa Leta, Desta Abebe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Against the grain: safeguarding rice from rice blast disease

Trends in Biotechnology, 2009
Rice is the staple diet of more than three billion people. Yields must double over the next 40 years if we are to sustain the nutritional needs of the ever-expanding global population. Between 10% and 30% of the annual rice harvest is lost due to infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.
Skamnioti, P, Gurr, S
openaire   +3 more sources

Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source

Development of Virulence Test Methods for Neck and Panicle Blast Disease

Research in Plant Disease, 2015
Isolates of the rice blast fungus show a range of tissue-specificities infecting leaves, nodes, neck and panicles. Although neck and panicle blast cause significantly greater yield losses than the leaf blast, virulence tests of the blast isolates have ...
Myoung-Hwan Chi, Sook-Young Park
doaj   +1 more source

Review: Rice Blast Disease

Annual Research & Review in Biology, 2020
Rice blast caused by Magnaporthe grisea is the major damaging disease in nearly all rice growing nations. Economically relevance with 60 percent of total population of world depending on rice as the main source of calories, may have destructive effects of the disease, however, this pathogen has developed into a pioneering model system for researching ...
Shahriar, Saleh Ahmed, Imtiaz, Abdullah All, Hossain, Md. Belal, Husna, Asmaul, Eaty, Most. Nurjahan Khatun   +4 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source