FIFA, June 15 / PRNewswire-Asianet /-- it was learned from Huazhong Agricultural University that Professor Li Guotian's team had discovered a new rice broad-spectrum disease resistance gene RBL12. Field experiments showed that RBL12 could recover about 40% of the yield loss under the occurrence of rice blast disease in the field. The results were published online a few days ago in the international academic journal Nature. The reviewer of the journal Nature believes that this study puts forward a new strategy for the utilization of reserve resources, which is a major discovery of practical significance and has great potential for application.