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Improvement of Disease Resistance in Rice and Sorghum

Simon Krattinger of CSIRO Plant Industry in Australia, along with Beat Keller and Evans Lagudah of the University of Zurich, seek to generate transgenic rice and sorghum that are resistant to specific pathogenic fungi by introducing a known disease resistance gene, Lr34, from wheat.

More information about Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses from Field to Market (Round 9)