A group led by Dr. Ning Yuese and Dr. Liu Wende at the Institute of Plant Protection of CAAS revealed a direct correlation between plant nutrition and disease resistance, and analyzed the regulation mechanism of  monocotyledon's receptor kinase SD-1 against rice blast fungus. These studies are of great significance for finding new disease control methods.

The Magnaporthe oryzae effector AvrPiz-t suppresses innate immunity by modulating the rice potassium channel OsAKT1