Other Plant Disease — India
Agricultural scientists in Kashmir have found that the pathogen causing the blast disease that reduces productivity of rice plants in Kashmir, [is related] to Chinese and Japanese variants, and not the Indian ones.
Dr Mehraj-u-Din Shah, SKUAST [Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology] said, “The morphological characters, pathogenicity tests and sequence analysis helped in identification of our isolates, confirming that our pathogen was more closely related to the
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