Dr. Sarah M.Schmidt from Institute for Molecular Physiology and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf and Max Planck Inst for Plant Breeding Research, Koln, Germany and Dr. US Singh fron India visited lab on Jan 16, 2020; They explored the scope of CRISPR/Cas9-based editing of rice targets for resistance to Xoo.