Biological Control of Rice Diseases

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Rice and Its Importance to Human Life

   • Samuel S. Gnanamanickam

   Pages 1-11

3. Major Diseases of Rice

   • Samuel S. Gnanamanickam

   Pages 13-42

4. An Overview of Progress in Biological Control

   • Samuel S. Gnanamanickam

   Pages 43-51

5. Biological Control of Rice Blast

   • Samuel S. Gnanamanickam

   Pages 53-65

6. Biological Control of Bacterial Blight of Rice

   • Samuel S. Gnanamanickam

   Pages 67-78

7. Biological Control of Sheath Blight (ShB) of Rice

   • Samuel S. Gnanamanickam

   Pages 79-89

8. Biological Control of Sheath-Rot and Other Fungal Diseases

   • Samuel S. Gnanamanickam

   Pages 91-93

9. Biological Control of Rice Tungro Disease (RTD)

   • Samuel S. Gnanamanickam

   Pages 95-97

10. Back Matter

    Pages 99-108

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There is suf?cient need to document all the available data on biological control of rice diseases in a small volume. Part of this need rests on the global importance of rice to human life. In the ?rst chapter, I have tried to show that rice is indeed life for most people in Asia and shortages in production and availability can lead to a food crisis. While rice is cultivated in most continents, biological disease management attains special relevance to rice farmers of Africa, Asia, and also perhaps, Latin America. These farmers are resource-poor and might not be able to afford the cost of expensive chemical treatments to control devastating rice pathogens such as Magnaporthe oryzae (blast), Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (bacterial leaf blight), Rhizoctonia solani (sheath blight) and the virus, rice tungro disease. In an earlier volume that I developed under the title, Biological Control of Crop Diseases (Dekker/CRC Publishers, 2002), I included transgenic crops generated for the management of plant pathogens as biological control under the umbrella of a broad de?nition. Dr Jim Cook who wrote the Foreword for the volume lauded the inclusion of transgenic crops and induced systemic resistance (ISR) as a positive trend toward acceptance of host plant resistance as part of biocontrol. I continue to subscribe to this view.

• Bacterial Blight
• Biocontrol agents
• Blast
• Pathogen
• Rice
• Shealth blight
• microbiology
• microorganism

• Texas AgriLife Research & Extension Center Texas A&M University, Dallas, United States

  Samuel S. Gnanamanickam

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