Battling rice blast disease with underground microbes
Monday, November 15, 2010 - 11:33
in Mathematics & Economics
Rice is the most important grain consumed by humans, providing more than one-fifth of the calories sustaining the world's population. By some estimates, however, global production of rice could feed an additional 60 million people, if it weren't for rice blast disease, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe grisea.