At that time scientists worked day and night searching through a databank of rice genes in hopes of finding a strain resistant to the virus. Luckily, a variety of wild rice was found in a valley in India which had the necessary gene, and disaster was narrowly avoided.
當時科學家夜以繼日地搜羅四萬多種稻米基因庫，希望找到對抗這種疾病的品種，所幸終於在印度山谷中發現一種野生稻米，從中取得抗病基因，而逃過一劫。