First Report of Causing Bacterial Panicle Blight in Rice in Bangladesh.

Bacterial panicle blight (BPB) is one of the emerging diseases occurring in different Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZ) of Bangladesh and can cause up to 75% yield loss. In Bangladesh, the typical symptoms of BPB include sheath rot, panicle blight, grain spotting, and grain rot in both inbred and hybrid rice varieties, which resemble those reported by Zhou (2019). To confirm, 300 field samples of 20 panicles each with typical BPB symptoms from 20 districts (3 locations each district and 5 fields per location) were collected during mid-November 2022 for the causal pathogen(s) isolation.

Native Induced the Defense-Related Enzymes and Genes in Rice against pv. ().

The application of is a form of biological control that has been effective in combating pv. , the causative agent of the devastating disease known as bacterial blight of rice. In this present study, four strains of viz.