GM Rice

Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) is of major concern especially among African rice farmers since rice is one of Africa’s staple foods. It has been estimated that rice yield loss to RYMV in

Source: John Innes Centre

Africa could be as much as 94% for susceptible lowland cultivars and 54% among tolerant upland cultivars. Typical symptoms of the disease are yellowing, mottling and stunted leaf growth leading to sterile or unfilled grains. Weakened plants are then susceptible to other fungal, viral, or bacterial rice pathogens.To combat this disease, researchers are enhancing the plant’s antiviral defense system by incorporating mRNA sequences of the virus into rice plants, consequently make them immune to the pathogen.

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