Improvement of Basmati rice varieties for resistance to blast and bacterial blight diseases using marker assisted backcross breeding

RK Ellur, A Khanna, A Yadav, S Pathania… - Plant Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Marker assisted backcross breeding was employed to incorporate the blast resistance
genes, Pi2 and Pi54 and bacterial blight (BB) resistance genes xa13 and Xa21 into the …

Advances in the Xoo-rice pathosystem interaction and its exploitation in disease management

JB Joshi, L Arul, J Ramalingam, S Uthandi - Journal of Biosciences, 2020 - Springer
Bacterial blight caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is one of the devastating
diseases of rice worldwide. The pathogen reported to cause 70% crop loss in some of the …

Controlling rice bacterial blight in Africa: needs and prospects

V Verdier, CV Cruz, JE Leach - Journal of biotechnology, 2012 - Elsevier
Rice cultivation has drastically increased in Africa over the last decade. During this time, the
region has also seen a rise in the incidence of rice bacterial blight caused by the pathogen …

Importance and management of rice diseases: a global perspective

GS Laha, R Singh, D Ladhalakshmi, S Sunder… - Rice production …, 2017 - Springer
Plant diseases are one of the major constraints in achieving the potential yield. Rice, the
most important food crop in the world, is attacked by a number of fungal, bacterial and viral …

Managing the major diseases of rice in Africa.

Y Séré, D Fargette, ME Abo, K Wydra… - … Africa's rice promise, 2013 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This chapter provides an overview of rice diseases identified in Africa and their importance,
with emphasis on rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae [Magnaporthe grisea]), rice yellow mottle …

Current Trends and Emerging Technologies for Pest Control Management of Rice (Oryza sativa) Plants

M Ramadass, P Thiagarajan - Environmental Biotechnology Volume 4, 2021 - Springer
Rice (Oryza sativa), with a global production of around 770 million tons, is a widely
consumed staple cereal in Asian countries. The Food and Agricultural Organization has …

Chemical characterization of an aqueous extract and the essential oil of Tithonia diversifolia and their biocontrol activity against seed-borne pathogens of rice

AN Dongmo, J Nguefack, JBL Dongmo… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - Springer
The high cost of chemical pesticides and their negative impact on the environment prompted
the search for natural pesticides from plants. The objective of our study was to control rice …

Identification of novel major and minor QTLs associated with Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (African strains) resistance in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

G Djedatin, MN Ndjiondjop, A Sanni, M Lorieux… - Rice, 2016 - Springer
Background Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is the causal agent of Bacterial Leaf
Blight (BB), an emerging disease in rice in West-Africa which can induce up to 50% of yield …

Phenotypic evaluation of rice germplasm against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and its in-vitro management through antibiotics

S Muhammad, A Muhammad… - Asian Journal of …, 2022 - eprint.subtopublish.com
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) which causes bacterial leaf blight (BLB) disease is
one of the most destructive pathogen of rice. BLB incites more than 70% yield losses in …

Multilocus sequence analysis and type III effector repertoire mining provide new insights into the evolutionary history and virulence of Xanthomonas oryzae

A Hajri, C Brin, S Zhao, P David… - Molecular plant …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) and type III effector (T3E) repertoire mining were
performed to gain new insights into the genetic relatedness of Xanthomonas oryzae pv …