Bacterial blight (BB) of rice is among the most devastating rice diseases that occur globally, ranging in distribution from 20 °S in Queensland, Australia to 58 °N in Heilang Jiang, China (Mew, 1989). The disease is particularly destructive in the tropics, especially in Asia, where rice is grown throughout the year, during heavy rains of the monsoon season, and peaking at the flowering stage. Several disease-management strategies aimed at reducing crop losses and averting outbreaks of epidemics have been developed in the past. Effective chemical control for the management of rice BB is yet to be developed because of the extreme variability of the pathogen population in its sensitivity to antibiotics and chemicals used for control.
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Gnanamanickam, S.S. (2009). Biological Control of Bacterial Blight of Rice. In: Biological Control of Rice Diseases. Progress in Biological Control, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2465-7_5
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