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Rice Diseases & Their Casual Organisms

Bacterial diseases

Bacterial diseases
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae = X. campestris pv.
Bacterial blight
oryzae
Bacterial leaf streak Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola
Foot rot Erwinia chrysanthemi
Grain rot Burkholderia glumae
Pecky rice (kernel Damage by bacteria (see also underfungal and
spotting) miscellaneous diseases)
Sheath brown rot Pseudomonas fuscovaginae

[edit] Fungal diseases

Fungal diseases

Ceratobasidium oryzae-sativae
Aggregate sheath spot Rhizoctonia oryzae-sativae
[anamorph]

Black kernel Curvularia lunata

Cochliobolus lunatus [teleomorph]

Blast (leaf, neck [rotten neck], nodal and Pyricularia grisea

collar) = Pyricularia oryzae
Magnaporthe grisea [teleomorph]

Brown spot Cochliobolus miyabeanus

Bipolaris oryzae [anamorph]
Crown sheath rot Gaeumannomyces graminis
Downy mildew Sclerophthora macrospora
Eyespot Drechslera gigantea
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False smut Ustilaginoidea virens

Kernel smut Tilletia barclayana

= Neovossia horrida
Leaf smut Entyloma oryzae

Leaf scald Microdochium oryzae

= Rhynchosporium oryzae

Cercospora janseana
Narrow brown leaf spot = Cercospora oryzae
Sphaerulina oryzina [teleomorph]

Damage by many fungi including

Pecky rice (kernel spotting)
Cochliobolus miyabeanus
Curvularia spp.
Fusarium spp.
Microdochium oryzae
Sarocladium oryzae
and other fungi.

Fusarium spp.
Root rots Pythium spp.
Pythium dissotocum
Pythium spinosum

Cochliobolus miyabeanus
Curvularia spp.
Fusarium spp.
Seedling blight Rhizoctonia solani
Sclerotium rolfsii
Athelia rolfsii [teleomorph]
and other pathogenic fungi.

Sheath blight Thanatephorus cucumeris

Rhizoctonia solani [anamorph]
Sheath rot
Sarocladium oryzae
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= Acrocylindrium oryzae
Sheath spot Rhizoctonia oryzae
Stackburn (Alternaria leaf spot) Alternaria padwickii

Stem rot Magnaporthe salvinii

Sclerotium oryzae [synanamorph]

Achlya conspicua
Achlya klebsiana
Water-mold (seed-rot and seedling Fusarium spp.
disease) Pythium spp.
Pythium dissotocum
Pythium spinosum

[edit] Miscellaneous diseases and disorders

Miscellaneous diseases and disorders

Alkalinity or salt damage Excessive salt concentration in soil or water
Bronzing Zinc deficiency
Cold injury Low temperatures
Panicle blight Cause undetermined
Pecky rice (kernel spotting) Feeding injury by rice stink bug
Arsenic induced, unknown physiological
Straighthead[1]
disorder
White tip (see nematodes) Aphelenchoides besseyi