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  • Northern corn leaf blight genes identified in new study

    Jan 11, 2018 4:00 pm by Lauren QuinnResearch
    Corn plants showing symptoms of northern corn leaf blight. Image from Wikimedia Commons

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    • Corn plants showing symptoms of northern corn leaf blight. Image from Wikimedia Commons

    Scientists have long known that corn and fungal genes interact, but until now, they didn’t know the molecular makeup of those genes in the fungus, or where they were located in the genome