Transcriptome sequencing of rice leaves with blast symptoms collected from rice fields of Bangladesh in 2017 and release of raw sequence data on OpenRiceBlast website for open access

<div>Infected rice samples were collected by Tofazzal Islam and team, and sent to the Sainsbury Laboratory for RNA extraction and sequencing. Library preparation and RNA-Seq sequencing runs were performed by Genewiz using Illumina HiSeq-2500 machines to produce paired-end reads with ~300 bp average insert size. Here we report the release of these data to general public with open access on OpenRiceBlast website.</div><div><br></div

Plant probiotic bacteria suppress wheat blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum pathotype

<b>Biological control of fearsome wheat blast by bacterial antagonist from native environment.</b

Genome sequences of candidate wheat blast biocontrol bacteria

In an effort to combat wheat blast disease in Bangladesh, Prof. Tofazzal Islam and team have identified several biocontrol bacteria that have the ability to inhibit fungal growth in wheat (Surovy et al., 2017). They have isolated a number of these agents and we have sequenced the genomes of four bacterial strains to 30x coverage. The genome sequence data is now available to download from links in the tables included in the document.<br