offering an alternative to chemical fungicides," says Dr. Furuyama. "If we can enhance the growth of S. griseus in rice ...

Discovery of a unique microbial interaction offers potential for environmentally friendly control of rice blast disease Additionally, the study offers valuable insights into the ecological role of P.

It also has implications for the control of rice blast disease, because proteins that are involved in infection could be targets for the development of new fungicides.

The fungus is everywhere in Italy.” Rice blast is caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryzae, which evolves rapidly and gains resistance to fungicides. Some of the chemicals don’t help very much ...

Our strongest weapons against fungal plant diseases are azole fungicides. These chemical ... mechanism azoles killing pathogen cells in the rice-blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.