Technology identified could reduce the spread of rice virus

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 17:56 in Biology & Nature

Building on plant virus research started more than 20 years ago, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his a colleague at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis have discovered a technology that reduces infection by the virus that causes Rice Tungro Disease, a limiting factor of rice production in Asia.

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