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Biological Control of Rice Blast

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Biological Control of Rice Diseases

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

Rice blast continues to be a severe production constraint particularly in dryland and unbunded upland rice in tropical Asia. In early research, plant-associated bacterial strains assembled from the rice rhizosphere were used as biocontrol agents for blast suppression. In such efforts it was observed that fluorescent strains of Pseudomonas were the dominant group in the rice rhizosphere. In South Indian flooded rice rhizosphere, an analysis showed that biovar 3 was quite dominant among the P. fluorescens (Sakthivel & Gnanamanickam, 1989). Representative strains of a dominant biovar were usually chosen as biocontrol agents. An important first criterion that determined whether or not a particular strain will be useful for further work in the greenhouse/filed plots is its consistent antagonism towards the target pathogen, Magnaporthe grisea.

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Gnanamanickam, S.S. (2009). Biological Control of Rice Blast. In: Biological Control of Rice Diseases. Progress in Biological Control, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2465-7_4

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