Abstract
Hot on the heels of the sequencing of the rice genome comes the first draft of the genome of rice blast, Magnaporthe grisea, one of its major pests. Rice is a staple food for hundreds of millions of humans, but it is also food for the devastating fungus, which annually destroys food for 60 million people. Along with anthrax, this plant disease also has the dubious ‘honor’ of being identified as a potential biological weapon for use by terrorists. Sequencing was completed under the joint National Sciences Foundation of the USA and the US Dept of Agriculture Microbial Genome Sequencing Project, and the data can be viewed at http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/annotation/fungi/magnaporthe/. NC
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