Rice bacterial blight, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, remains a major threat to global food security. Over the past decades, genetic research has elucidated the complex interplay between ...

Journal of Plant Pathology, Vol. 99, No. 3 (November 2017), pp. 773-778 (6 pages) Thirty-two strains of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) representing 12 pathotypes from major rice growing Indian ...

Plants get bacterial infections, just as humans do. When food crops and trees are infected, their yield and quality can suffer. Although some compounds have been developed to protect plants, few of ...

In rice varieties that are resistant to the diseases, the team is exposing the plants to the two bacteria. They then check to see which plant genes are activated, and to what extent.

SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ (PIA) — The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has advised rice farmers in Central Luzon and ...

Jing-Hui Yang, Wen-Wen Zhang, Yi-Qing Zhuang, Ting Xiao, Biocontrol activities of bacteria from cowdung against the rice sheath blight pathogen, Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, Vol. 124, No.

Antibacterial Functions and Proposed Modes of Action of Novel 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-β-carboline Derivatives that Possess an Attractive 1,3-Diaminopropan-2-ol Pattern against Rice Bacterial Blight ...

Bacterial blight-resistant rice variety gets approval Ludhiana, May 15 Recently, the State Variety Approval Committee gave its nod to ‘PR 130’ variety of parmal rice for cultivation.

The diseases have the potential to destroy 70% of crop yields in worst-case scenarios, and they cause substantial losses for farmers in Bangladesh who grow the cereal each year. Scientists have now ...

Currently, no effective prevention or treatment exists for some plant bacterial diseases, including rice leaf blight, kiwifruit canker and citrus canker, which result in substantial agricultural ...