Sentences with phrase «of rice blast»

Scientists have found a way to stop the spread of rice blast, a fungus that destroys up to 30 % of the world's rice crop each year.

The US anti-crop programme, an intensive operation throughout the 1950s and 60s, had a cache of nearly a tonne of rice blast at the time it was disbanded.

In studies at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute at UD, Bais and his team treated spores of the rice blast fungus with abscisic acid.

Not exact matches

Marchetti retired from ARS in 2001, leaving behind not only a legacy of excellence in rice breeding and plant pathology, but also a prized collection of 1,000 rice blast specimens he isolated from Texas, Arkansas, and other rice - growing states.

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 Bangladrice 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 Bangladrice bug, yellow stem borer) were recorded for GR2E Golden Rice and unmodified control rice grown at five locations during the 2017 boro season in BangladRice and unmodified control rice grown at five locations during the 2017 boro season in Bangladrice grown at five locations during the 2017 boro season in Bangladesh.

Five years ago, a team led by Richard Smalley at Rice University in Houston came up with a new production method that blasts a graphite target with lasers in the presence of catalytic metal particles.

Recently, the UD team found that when rice plants are subjected to multiple threats — including increasing concentrations of poisonous arsenic in water and soil, an urgent concern in Southeast Asia, plus a fungal disease called rice blast — the plants aren't necessarily goners.

Previously, Bais and his research team isolated Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105, a bacterium that lives in the soil around the roots of rice plants and found that this beneficial microbe can trigger a system - wide defense against the rice blast fungus.

The University of Exeter scientists tested this method in rice blast infections, but found more severe disease symptoms.

«Rice blast is a relentless killer, a force to be reckoned with, especially as rice is a staple in the daily diet of more than half the world's population — that's over 3 billion people,» Bais noRice blast is a relentless killer, a force to be reckoned with, especially as rice is a staple in the daily diet of more than half the world's population — that's over 3 billion people,» Bais norice is a staple in the daily diet of more than half the world's population — that's over 3 billion people,» Bais notes.

In a research study published in the journal Planta this past October, Bais and colleagues Spence, Donofrio and Vidhyavathi Raman showed that Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 strongly inhibited the formation of the appressorium and that priming rice plants with EA105 prior to infection by rice blast decreased lesion size.

This easy dispersal, coupled with the complexity of breeding resistant plants, make rice blast a potentially dangerous biological weapon.

Their four - year efforts have made very significant progress in breeding for durable resistance against blast in rice varieties that are adapted for Africa, have set the stage for continental surveillance of the disease, and developed a robust collection of resources for outreach and awareness creation.

Makassane, a new IRRI - bred rice variety released in Mozambique in 2011, has improved resistance to blast - a major disease of the country.

Although many resistant varieties have already been bred, the breakdown of blast resistance causes yield instability in several rice - growing areas in the world.

Blast is considered a major disease of rice because of its wide distribution and extent of destruction under favorable conditions.