Genome-edited rice shows resistance to bacterial blight in East Africa

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Feb 20, 2025, 10:10 am60 ptsTrending
The international Healthy Crops consortium has developed an innovative strategy to combat the disease bacterial blight (for short: BB) in rice using genome editing technology. If approved for use by farmers in Kenya, the BB-resistant rice varieties are expected to reduce yield losses associated with the disease…

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