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Rice plants can fight off devastating disease after gene editing with AI-designed tool

Phys.org · WORLD · Science · 10/27/2026, 4:20:15 PM

University of Missouri researchers have created rice plants that resist bacterial blight, a devastating disease that threatens one of the world's most important food crops. The advance could help farmers in parts of Asia and Africa, where the disease can destroy harvests and threaten livelihoods.

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