Biochemical changes in rice plants due to application of bioinoculant, organic product, plant activator and moculation of Pyricularia oryzae

Rice continues to be the major staple food crop for human population. With the twin forces of population growth and economic expansion particularly in Asia, world rice requirements are expected to increase by 1.7 per cent annually between 1990 and 2025. Although seemingly small, this growth rate translates into an additional requirement of 13 million tonnes of rice per year. With less land available to expand rice-growing areas with competing demands from urbanization and industrialization on existing rice lands and irrigation water, production increase should come from intensive agriculture in existing lands of favourable and less favourable areas. This ABSTRACT