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Bacterial blight and fungal blast diseases, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oryzae and Magnaporthe oryzae, respectively, are two of the most devastating diseases in rice worldwide.We screened for mutants with enhanced resistance to both the pathogens.One mutant, ebrl (enhanced blight and blast resistance 1) showed enhanced resistance to multiple strains of Xoo as well as M.oryzae.Plants of ebrl developed a spontaneous cell death phenotype on leaves in the absence of pathogens, similar to hypersensitive response (HR) cell death in during plant immune activation.