Protecting the rice bowl: Chromosomal mapping of the rice blast fungus
...an M. grisea chromosome - animportant step towards defeating the depredations of this fungus and the firstsuch map of any rice pathogen chromosome. To create the map, Zhu and colleagues combined two commonly used techniques,hybridization and fingerprinting, to precisely order hundreds of clones spanningM. gri...Forest preservation work turns to Carolina hemlock
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