Phylogenetic Characterization and Genome Sequence Analysis of Strains Isolated in Thailand as the Causal Agent of Rice Bacterial Panicle Blight.

is one of the most critical rice-pathogenic bacteria, and it causes bacterial panicle blight (BPB) in rice plants. In 2017, BPB symptoms were observed from rice fields in Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand. Sixty-one isolates obtained from the symptomatic panicles of rice were initially identified as by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using species-specific primers.

Identification of Bacterial Blight Resistance Loci in Rice ( L.) against Diverse Thai Strains by Genome-Wide Association Study.

Bacterial leaf blight (BLB) is a serious disease affecting global rice agriculture caused by pv. (). Most resistant rice lines are dependent on single genes that are vulnerable to caused by pathogen mutation.

Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophages Infecting , the Major Causal Agent of Bacterial Panicle Blight in Rice.

Bacterial panicle blight (BPB), caused by , is one of the most severe seed-borne bacterial diseases of rice in the world, which can decrease rice production by ≤75%. Nevertheless, there are few effective measures to manage this disease. In an attempt to develop an alternative management tool for BPB, we isolated and characterized phages from soil and water that are effective to lyse several strains of After tests of host ranges, the phages NBP1-1, NBP4-7, and NBP4-8 were selected for further comprehensive characterization, all of which could lyse BGLa14-8 (phage sensitive) but not 336gr-1 (phage insensitive).

Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Resistance Loci for Bacterial Leaf Streak Resistance in Rice ( L.).

Bacterial leaf streak (BLS) caused by pv. () is one of the most devastating diseases in rice production areas, especially in humid tropical and subtropical zones throughout Asia and worldwide. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis conducted on a collection of 236 diverse rice accessions, mainly varieties, identified 12 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) on chromosomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 11, conferring resistance to five representative isolates of Thai .

An Resistance Gene-Breaking Indian Strain of the Rice Bacterial Blight Pathogen pv. oryzae Is Nearly Identical to a Thai Strain.

The rice bacterial blight pathogen pv. oryzae () constrains production in major rice growing countries of Asia. injects transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) that bind to and activate host "susceptibility" () genes that are important for disease.

Sampling for disease absence-deriving informed monitoring from epidemic traits.

Monitoring for disease requires subsets of the host population to be sampled and tested for the pathogen. If all the samples return healthy, what are the chances the disease was present but missed? In this paper, we developed a statistical approach to solve this problem considering the fundamental property of infectious diseases: their growing incidence in the host population. The model gives an estimate of the incidence probability density as a function of the sampling effort, and can be reversed to derive adequate monitoring patterns ensuring a given maximum incidence in the population.

Genome-wide association mapping of virulence gene in rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae using a genotyping by sequencing approach.

Magnaporthe oryzae is a fungal pathogen causing blast disease in many plant species. In this study, seventy three isolates of M. oryzae collected from rice (Oryza sativa) in 1996-2014 were genotyped using a genotyping-by-sequencing approach to detect genetic variation.