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Major Diseases of Rice

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Book cover Biological Control of Rice Diseases

Part of the book series: Progress in Biological Control ((PIBC,volume 8))

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the major or devastating diseases of rice. In the Fig.2.1, three fungal diseases, blast, sheath blight and sheath-rot, the bacterial disease, bacterial blight (BB) of rice and the viral disease, rice tungro disease (RTD), are listed as major diseases of rice. The list may not be entirely correct for certain rice ecologies of the world. In Asia where more than half of the world’s rice is produced and consumed, these five diseases are major production constraints. These are also diseases for which lots of scientific information is available because they have been studied in detail due to the devastations they cause to rice production.

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Gnanamanickam, S.S. (2009). Major Diseases of Rice. In: Biological Control of Rice Diseases. Progress in Biological Control, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2465-7_2

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