Sentences with phrase «rice blast fungus»

According to Bais, the rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe oryzae) attacks rice plants through spores resembling pressure plugs that penetrate the plant tissue.

Bais» group previously isolated a natural bacterium from rice paddy soil that blunts the rice blast fungus.

Bais and his team have shown that when the rice blast fungus invades a rice plant, an increase in abscisic acid occurs.

The rice blast fungus M. oryzae infects rice plants through a structure called an appressorium.

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

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.

Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 can trigger a system - wide defense against the rice blast fungus, which destroys enough rice to feed an estimated 60 million people each year.

Not exact matches

For example, the researchers thought if arsenic was taken up by rice plants, that poison might be detrimental to the blast fungus.

The findings, published in December in Frontiers in Plant Science and in Current Opinion in Plant Biology, may lead to a more effective control for Magnaporthe oryzae, the fungus that causes rice blast disease.

Rice blast (Pyricularia grisea) is a fungus that feeds on the rice plant, causing severe damage usually during the seedling stRice blast (Pyricularia grisea) is a fungus that feeds on the rice plant, causing severe damage usually during the seedling strice plant, causing severe damage usually during the seedling stage.

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.