Bacterial Diseases of Rice and Their Management

Description

Rice is a major staple food and a source of nutrition for over 3.5 billion people worldwide. It is, however, susceptible to a number of bacterial diseases that decrease its yield and quality. This book covers the bacterial diseases of rice and their management, focusing on sustainable management methods that involve biological control, conventional breeding, and molecular methods. It covers the biology of rice bacterial blight pathogens, virulence determinants, and host defense factors of bacterial blight pathogen-rice interactions. Different resistance rice cultivars, their resistance loci, and quantitative trait loci mapping in the important rice cultivars are also discussed. The book presents biological studies of the major rice bacterial diseases (rice bacterial brown stripe disease, bacterial leaf streak disease, rice bacterial panicle blight disease, rice bacterial foot rot, sheath brown rot disease) and presents comparative analyses of conventional breeding, and molecular management approaches, along with examples. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page About the Editors Table of Contents Contributors Abbreviations Preface Chapter 1: Impact of Major Rice Bacterial Diseases on Agriculture and Food Security Chapter 2: Current and Potential Methods for Bacterial Disease Detection in Rice Chapter 3: An Overview of the Biology of Rice Bacterial Blight Pathogens and Prospects of Conventional Methods for Their Management Chapter 4: Virulence Determinants and Host Defense Factors in Xanthomonas-Rice Interaction Chapter 5: Challenges and Opportunities of Recent Tools for Bacterial Blight Resistance Chapter 6: Reviews of Biological and Ecological Studies of Bacterial Panicle Blight Pathogen Chapter 7: Insights from the Conventional Breeding and Molecular Approaches for Rice Bacterial Panicle Blight Disease Resistance Chapter 8: Understanding the Biology of Rice Bacterial Brown Stripe Pathogen and Conventional Strategies for Its Management Chapter 9: Advances and Prospects of Biotechnological Tools for the Management of Rice Bacterial Brown Stripe Disease Chapter 10: Introduction to the Biological and Ecological Studies of Bacterial Leaf Streak Pathogen Chapter 11: Retrospective and Perspective Management of Rice Bacterial Leaf Streak Disease Chapter 12: Sheath Brown Rot of Rice: A Review on Introduction, Epidemiology, and Its Integrated Management Chapter 13: The Emerging Role of New Molecular Technologies for the Development of Broad-Spectrum Resistance to Sheath Brown Rot Disease in Rice Chapter 14: Biological and Ecological Studies of Rice Bacterial Foot Rot Pathogen: An Update Chapter 15: Then and Now: Use of Conventional and Molecular Technologies for Bacterial Foot Rot Disease Resistance in Rice Chapter 16: Bioagents and Volatile Organic Compounds: An Emerging Control Measures for Rice Bacterial Diseases Chapter 17: Opportunities for Bioinformatics Tools for the Management of Rice Bacterial Diseases Index