Fungus genome map paves way for release of commercially important jute variety Bangladeshi jute researchers are now upbeat at the prospect of commercial release of a new variety of jute — Snow White Fibre — following decoding of the genome of deadly fungus macrophomina phaseolina by a team of local scientists. Globally famed geneticist Dr ... Read more
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Bangladeshi scientists invent fungus gene
A Bangladeshi scientist has decoded the genome of a most deadly fungus that causes havoc to global jute and soybean production. The fungus — macrophomina phaseolina — also causes seedling blight, root rot and charcoal rot of more than 500 crop and non-crop