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A SWEET solution to rice blight

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Two studies offer a powerful strategy for combating bacterial blight in rice.

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Fig. 1: Overview of the development of genome-edited lines for key SWEET genes and features of a diagnostic kit for combating bacterial blight rice.

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  1. Center of Excellence in Genomics & Systems Biology, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India

    Rajeev K. Varshney

  2. Centre for Crop Science, QAAFI, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Ian D. Godwin

  3. Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi, India

    Trilochan Mohapatra

  4. The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK

    Jonathan D. G. Jones

  5. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Susan R. McCouch

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Varshney, R.K., Godwin, I.D., Mohapatra, T. et al. A SWEET solution to rice blight. Nat Biotechnol 37, 1280–1282 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0302-0

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