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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
Long regarded as being caused by a fungus, the causative agent was not discovered until 1987. It occurs most commonly in horses, dogs, and humans, with isolated cases in other large mammals. [1] The disease is contracted after exposure to stagnant fresh water such as swamps, ponds, lakes, and rice paddies.
Rice blast is the most important disease concerning rice crops in the world. Since rice is an important food source for much of the world, its effects have a broad range. It has been found in over 85 countries across the world and reached the United States in 1996. Every year the amount of crops lost to rice blast could feed 60 million people.
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]
Sarocladium oryzae has conidiophores which are irregularly penicillate and slimy, 1-celled conidia. [1]It was previously known as Acrocylindrium oryzae.For forty years prior to 2005, the industrial strain used to manufacture the antibiotic cerulenin was known under the invalidly published name "Cephalosporium caerulens", but a subculture of the original C. caerulens strain KF-140 was ...
Epicoccum sorghinum (former Phoma sorghina) is an ascomycete fungus with known plant pathogenicity to sugarcane and rice, causing ring spot disease and leaf spot disease.This fungus is primarily known for its production of tenuazonic acid, which leads to complications with growth and causes the symptoms of leaf spot disease.
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Gibberella fujikuroi is a fungal plant pathogen. It causes bakanae disease in rice seedlings. Rice 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.