Thursday, 18 April 2019

PRO/PL> Pantoea leaf blight, rice - Malaysia: 1st rep

Other Plant Disease -- Malaysia
_Pantoea_ spp. cause severe diseases [on rice]. In September 2017 and April 2018, bacterial leaf blight of rice (MR269 and CL varieties) was observed in the states of Selangor and Kedah, with 80% disease incidence. Symptoms were water-soaked stripes with yellowing color, which later turned into brown stripes on the upper part of leaves.
From symptomatic leaves, 10 representative bacterial colonies were isolated. [For] all isolates, PCR amplification [for] _Pantoea_ species was performed,

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6428936&promed&0

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