Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

Many plant bacteriologists, if not all, feel that their particular microbe should appear in any
list of the most important bacterial plant pathogens. However, to our knowledge, no such list …

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola cause bacterial
blight and bacterial leaf streak of rice (Oryza sativa), which constrain production of this staple …

The production and productivity of rice has been challenged due to biotic and abiotic factors.
Bacterial blight (BB) disease, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, is one of the …

This is a status paper on a destructive rice disease–bacterial blight (BB), caused by
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo). We review the occurrence and spread of this …

Key message A new bacterial blight resistance gene has been identified through fine-
mapping, which confers high levels of resistance to all Korean Xanthomonas oryzae pv …

The development of a crop, and therefore its health, is always the result of interplay between
biological and environmental factors, as influenced by human agency. In other words, crop …

Most scientists and many of the world's farmers have abandoned traditional farming
practices and systems in an effort to increase production and to improve the efficiency of …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the progress made in developing rice that is
resistant to diseases and insects. Among cereal crops, rice is the host of the largest number …

Bacteria belonging to the genus Xanthomonas are, with the exception of X. maltophilia
which is cosmopolitan in distribution and not known to be a plant pathogen (Swings et al …