Rice Sheath Rot: An Emerging Ubiquitous Destructive Disease Complex

Rice Sheath Rot: An Emerging Ubiquitous Destructive Disease Complex

Around one century ago, a rice disease characterized mainly by rotting of sheaths was reported in Taiwan. The causal agent was identified as Acrocylindrium oryzae, later known as Sarocladium oryzae. Since then it has become clear that various other organisms can cause similar disease symptoms, including Fusarium sp. and fluorescent pseudomonads. These organisms have in common that they produce ...

Bioefficacy of Strobilurin Based Fungicides against Rice Sheath Blight Disease

As the usage of fungicides catapulted with the onward march of the dial hour, fungicidal resistance by the pathogens emerged as a new constraint. This amalgamated with the growing demand by the farmers for crop protection agents with low use rates, a benign environmental profile and a low toxicity to human and wild life, further gave an impetus to the search of new molecule of fungicides with n...

Rice Sheath Blight Disease Resistance Identified in Oryza spp. Accessions

Foot Rot- An Emerging Issue in Sheep Husbandry

Foot rot is a highly contagious and economically important disease of the feet of ruminants especially sheep and goats and is characterized by the separation of keratinous hoof from the underlying epidermal tissue resulting in severe lameness, loss of body condition and reduced wool production. Although foot rot infection has been reported in cattle, horses, pigs, deer and mouflon, the infectio...

Rebar Detection Using Gpr: an Emerging Non Destructive Qc Approach

Civil infrastructure especially the rigid pavements have been increasingly covering a huge part of the infrastructure around us with the demand of rapid urbanization. The quality and condition assessment of it after its construction is an important issue with the engineers. The need for defect diagnosis and verification of their various design parameters is vital and important for quality contr...