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Khabre desk
Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the rice desk.
science
A bioRxiv preprint reports that microbiome-colonized rice and two defined bacterial communities had less rice blast disease in a gnotobiotic experimental system. The results suggest that microbes can shape rice immune responses as well as act against the fungus.
science
A bioRxiv preprint reports that rice peptide OsRALF7 can trigger infection-structure formation in the rice blast fungus. Experiments in rice plants also suggest the peptide helps guide where those structures form.
health
A Hokkaido University study of 56 japonica rice varieties identified 196 lipid molecules and found distinctive lipid profiles in black and green rice. These varieties also showed slower starch breakdown than typical white rice in a laboratory digestion model.