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Differential on rice. M. grisea is an ascomycete fungus. It is an extremely effective plant pathogen as it can reproduce both sexually and asexually to produce specialized infectious structures, appressoria, that infect aerial tissues and hyphae that can infect root tissues.
Bacterial diseases; Bacterial blight Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae = X. campestris pv. oryzae [2] Bacterial leaf streak Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola: Foot rot Dickeya dadantii/Erwinia chrysanthemi: Grain rot Burkholderia glumae: Pecky rice (kernel spotting) Damage by bacteria (see also under fungal and miscellaneous diseases) Sheath brown rot
Gibberella fujikuroi is a fungal plant pathogen. It causes bakanae disease in rice seedlings. Cotton infected with bakanae disease. Another name is foolish seedling disease. It gets that name because the seeds can be infected, leading to disparate outcomes for the plant. There are not many diseases that initiate similar symptoms as bakanae.
Cochliobolus miyabeanus is an important plant pathogen because it causes a common and widespread rice disease that causes high level of crop yield losses. It was a major cause of the Bengal famine of 1943, where the crop yield was dropped by 40% to 90% and the death of 2 million people was recorded. [3]
The rice false smut pathogen, Ustilaginoidea virens, invades through a small gap at the apex of a rice spikelet before heading. [7] The primary source of infection is the presence of chlamydospores in the soil. [8] During the vegetative stage of the growth of the rice crop, the fungus colonizes the tissue on the growing points on the tillers. [8]
A rice stem affected by the bakanae disease at the sporulation stage. The earliest known report of bakanae is from 1828; it was first described scientifically in 1898 by Japanese researcher Shotaro Hori, who showed that the causative agent was fungal. [1] The fungus affects rice crops in Asia, Africa, and North America.
Carpal tunnel surgery is usually considered after other treatment options have failed, Melamed says. Other, less invasive treatments, like splinting and steroid injections, are typically tried first.
Rice-sheath blight is a disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani (teleomorph is Thanetophorus cucumeris), a basidiomycete, that causes major limitations on rice production in India and other countries of Asia. [1] It is also a problem in the southern US, where rice is also produced. [2] It can decrease yield up to 50%, and reduce its quality. [3]