Sentences with phrase «bacterial blight»

In the late 70s, epidemics due to bacterial blight were reported in India.

Many bacterial blight - resistant genes have been identified through IRRI's breeding programs and are currently available for use in developing or improving popular commercial varieties.

Assuming that bacterial blight epidemic occurs in 10 % of the time over the production area, the yield gain is estimated to be 0.8 million metric tons of paddy rice per cropping season in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and China.

Whenever susceptible rice varieties are grown in environments that favor bacterial blight, very high yield losses, as much as over 70 %, may be caused by bacterial blight.

At present, 14 strains of the bacterial blight pathogen representing 10 races have been characterized in the Philippines alone.

Breeders and pathologists work together to screen breeding materials that carry resistance to bacterial blight.

The availability of molecular markers for these genes, which help breeders improve the accuracy and speed of developing new varieties, has made improving resistance to bacterial blight more efficient.

His research interest focuses on 1) development and application of TALEN and CRISPR technologies for targeted genome editing in plant species, and 2) molecular mechanism of plant / microbe interactions and crop disease resistance engineering by using the bacterial blight of rice as a model.

The disease is bacterial blight caused by Xanthomonas citri subspecies malvacearum, otherwise known as Xcm.

That worked from the late 20th Century until about six years ago when Xcm bacterial blight again showed up in force on the cotton crop in Texas and other states, wasting even varieties that previously could ward it off.

The team will continue to explore bacterial blight in cotton, as well as study the implications of these finds on rice and cassava.

It is also developing a «3 - in - 1» variety of Golden Rice, which will have resistance to tungro and bacterial blight, two of the most devastating rice diseases in the country.

Whenever susceptible rice varieties are grown in environments that favor bacterial blight, very high yield losses, as much as over 70 %, may be caused by bacterial blight.

Bacterial blight nevertheless remains an important concern and many countries will not endorse the release of new rice varieties unless they carry resistance to the disease.

In the late 70s, epidemics due to bacterial blight were reported in India.

Not exact matches

The incidence of rice diseases (e.g., bacterial leaf blight, leaf blast, sheath rot, and sheath blight) and damage from insect pests (e.g., rice bug, yellow stem borer) were recorded for GR2E Golden Rice and unmodified control rice grown at five locations during the 2017 boro season in Bangladesh.

Hybrid rice is thus susceptible to several diseases and efforts are now underway to develop hybrid varieties genetically engineered for resistance to bacterial leaf blight and rice stem borers.

A good example of this are streptomycin and tetracycline, two antibiotics used on apples and pears for the last few years to stop a bacterial disease called fire blight.