Rice, the primary staple food in many countries, is subject to disease that often place major biological constraints on production. Among rice diseases, sheath blight is second only to, and often rivals rice blast in ...

The role of riboflavin (vitamin B2) as an elicitor of systemic resistance and a plant

defense activator in rice was demonstrated in the present study. We conducted

studies of the mechanism of riboflavin-induced ...

Plants naturally express variable levels of resistance against different groups of their pathogens. This kind of primary defense response is known as basal, general, partial, polygenic or multigenic resistance that is ...

Drought is the most important limiting factor for rice production in Asia. So it seems essential to increase the drought tolerance of this plant. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (VAM), the most common symbiotic soil ...

Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most destructive rice diseases worldwide. The genetic variability of 55M. oryzae isolates from Iran and 32 isolates from Uruguay was analyzed using amplified fragment ...