List of rice diseases
This article is a list of diseases of rice (Oryza sativa). Diseases have historically been one of the major causes of rice shortages.[1]: 434
Bacterial diseases
    
| Bacterial diseases | |
|---|---|
| Bacterial blight | Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae = X. campestris pv. oryzae[2] | 
| Bacterial leaf streak | Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola | 
| Foot rot | Dickeya dadantii/Erwinia chrysanthemi | 
| Grain rot | Burkholderia glumae | 
| Pecky rice (kernel spotting) | Damage by bacteria (see also under fungal and miscellaneous diseases) | 
| Sheath brown rot | Pseudomonas fuscovaginae | 
Fungal diseases
    
| Fungal diseases | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate sheath | 
 Ceratobasidium oryzae-sativae  | 
| Black horse riding | 
 Curvularia lunata  | 
| Blast (leaf, neck [rotten neck], nodal and collar) | 
 Pyricularia grisea   | 
| Brown spot | 
 Cochliobolus miyabeanus  | 
| Crown sheath rot | |
| Downy mildew | |
| Eyespot | |
| False smut | |
| Kernel smut | 
 Tilletia barclayana   | 
| Leaf smut | |
| Leaf scald | 
 Microdochium oryzae   | 
| Narrow brown leaf spot | 
 Cercospora janseana   | 
| Pecky rice (kernel spotting) | 
 Damage by many fungi including   | 
| Root rots | 
 Fusarium spp.   | 
| 
 Rice is immune to rusts.[4]  | |
| Seedling blight | 
 Cochliobolus miyabeanus  | 
| Sheath blight | |
| Sheath rot | 
 Sarocladium oryzae   | 
| Sheath spot | Waitea oryzae | 
| Stackburn (Alternaria leaf spot) | |
| Stem rot | 
 Magnaporthe salvinii  | 
| Water-mold (seed-rot and seedling disease) | 
 Achlya conspicua  | 
Viruses
    
- Rice black-streaked dwarf virus
 - Rice bunchy stunt virus
 - Rice dwarf virus
 - Rice gall dwarf virus
 - Rice giallume virus
 - Rice grassy stunt virus
 - Rice hoja blanca tenuivirus
 - Rice necrosis mosaic virus
 - Rice ragged stunt virus
 - Rice stripe necrosis virus
 - Rice stripe tenuivirus
 - Rice transitory yellowing virus
 - Rice tungro bacilliform virus - see Tungro below
 - Rice tungro spherical virus - see Tungro below
 - Rice yellow mottle virus
 
Miscellaneous diseases and disorders
    
| Miscellaneous diseases and disorders | |
|---|---|
| Alkalinity or salt damage | Excessive salt concentration in soil or water | 
| Bronzing | Zinc deficiency | 
| Cold injury | Low temperatures | 
| Panicle blight | Cause undetermined | 
| Pecky rice (kernel spotting) | Feeding injury by rice stink bug, Oebalus pugnax | 
| Rice tungro | Complex virus (Rice tungro bacilliform virus and Rice tungro spherical virus) transmitted by green leafhopper Nephotettix spp.) | 
| Straighthead[6] | Arsenic induced, unknown physiological disorder | 
| White tip (see nematodes) | Aphelenchoides besseyi | 
See also
    
    
References
    
- Freedman, Amy (2013). "Rice security in Southeast Asia: beggar thy neighbor or cooperation?". The Pacific Review. Taylor & Francis. 26 (5): 433–454. doi:10.1080/09512748.2013.842303. ISSN 0951-2748. S2CID 153573639.
 - "bacterial leaf blight of rice, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Xanthomonadales: Xanthomonadaceae". Invasive.Org. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
 - Dean, R. A.; et al. (2005). "The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea". Nature. 434 (7036): 980–6. Bibcode:2005Natur.434..980D. doi:10.1038/nature03449. PMID 15846337.
 - McCandless, Linda (2011). "No rust for rice". Rice Today. Vol. 10, no. 1. CGIAR's Research Program on Rice & IRRI (International Rice Research Institute). pp. 38–39.
 - Hibino, Hiroyuki (1996). "Biology and Epidemiology of Rice Viruses". Annual Review of Phytopathology. Annual Reviews. 34 (1): 249–274. doi:10.1146/annurev.phyto.34.1.249. ISSN 0066-4286. PMID 15012543.
 - Straighthead of rice and its control
 
External links
    
- Common Names of Diseases, The American Phytopathological Society (APS)
 - Straighthead of rice and its control hosted by the Government Documents Department of the University of North Texas (UNT)