AgCenter Researcher Aims to Pinpoint Disease Resistance Gene in Rice
February 04, 2021
February 04, 2021
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 4 (TNSGra) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news:
An LSU AgCenter plant pathologist will use a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pinpoint the location of a gene in rice that could help farmers control a potentially devastating plant disease.
"Our goal is to characterize the resistance to narrow brown leaf spot at the genetic and functional level," said Jonathan Richards.
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An LSU AgCenter plant pathologist will use a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pinpoint the location of a gene in rice that could help farmers control a potentially devastating plant disease.
"Our goal is to characterize the resistance to narrow brown leaf spot at the genetic and functional level," said Jonathan Richards.
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