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Salicylic acid (SA) may play an important role in induced disease resistance in rice but its mode of action in plant defence remains unclear. In this study,we examined the effect of exogenous SA treatment on host resistance and biochemistry of four near-isogenic lines of rice to the blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea. Host resistance, as indicated by suppressed blast lesion formation, was enhanced following...