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Discovery of a common 'weapon' used by disease-causing fungi could help engineer more resilient food crops
The discovery of a powerful ‘weapon’ used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could offer new strategies to bolster global food security. Like humans, many fungi rely on plants as a food source. This impacts the yield of food crops. It’s estimated farmers lose between 10 to 23 per cent of their crops to fungal disease every year.