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Exploring The Effects Of Environmental Factors On Rice Blast Disease, April Ellen Lamb
Exploring The Effects Of Environmental Factors On Rice Blast Disease, April Ellen Lamb
Theses and Dissertations--Plant Pathology
Rice blast disease, caused by the ascomycete fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, occurs in over 85 countries and results in an annual crop loss of 10-30%, a corresponding nutrient value of meals for 60 million people. As a result, it is listed as a critical plant disease by the United Nations. Understanding factors affecting disease severity is of critical concern for food security. M. oryzae has been used as a model system for studying effector-triggered immunity (ETI) by understanding that ETI is primarily a plant response. M. oryzae has been used as a model to study fungal pathogenicity, host specificity, genome …