Examine IDs secret of stealthy invader important to ruinous rice illness

The virulence of a rice-wrecking fungus depends on genetic decoding quirks that would show central to stopping it, says new analysis. The analysis group hopes that figuring out a necessary however previously unknown stage within the fungal takeover of rice cells can speed up the therapy or prevention of rice blast illness, which ruins as much as 30% of world yields every year.