Monday, 2 May 2016

PRO/PL> Blast disease, wheat - Bangladesh: origin

Other Plant Disease -- Bangladesh
- The wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh [ProMED-mail post http://bit.ly/23iPX78] was not caused by a mutated rice blast strain. We found that the strains isolated from Bangladesh grouped very tightly with all known wheat blast strains from Brazil and not with any known rice blast strains.
- The wheat blast strains in Bangladesh are genetically very similar to wheat blast strains previously identified in Brazil. The genetically most similar strains were collected in

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/24ivODL

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