• By Luis Espino •
I have been getting quite a few questions regarding blast, mostly from Glenn and Colusa counties. It seems that 2020 will be a year with significant blast pressure.
Under California conditions, blast can be observed in...
• By Yeshi Wamishe and Jarrod Hardke •
Drs. By Yeshi Wamishe, Extension rice pathologist, and Jarrod Hardke, Extension rice agronomist, provide the optimum fungicide timing window for various fungal diseases below. You also can download this information and more...
A never-before-described gene that gives rice resistance to a disease that has been costing about $66 billion a year in global damage has been isolated by a team of scientists led by Agricultural Research Service plant pathologist Yulin Jia.
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Rutgers-led genome research finds fungal pathogen that causes rice disease became harmful 21 million years ago.
About 21 million years ago, a fungus that causes a devastating rice disease first became harmful to the food that nourishes roughly half the...