Sentence examples for grassy stunt from inspiring English sources
BPH causes direct damage to the plant by sucking the phloem sap, feeds by phloem abstraction and causes hopper burn, and transmits viral diseases such as grassy stunt virus (RGSV) and ragged stunt virus (RRSV).
BPH also transmits viruses (Cha et al. 2008), such as grassy stunt virus and rugged stunt virus to rice plants, causing further yield losses in Asian countries, including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam (Brar et al. 2010).
The first report of transfer of an agronomically important gene from a wild species to cultivated rice was the introgression of grassy stunt virus resistance from O. nivara (Khush et al. 1977).
Another famous wild rice accession, O. nivara from India (IRRI 101508), that furnished grassy stunt virus resistance to modern rice cultivars, also exhibits signs of introgression as it has straw colored hull like cultivated but not wild rice.
At IRRI, genes for resistance to brown planthopper, bacterial blight, blast, grassy stunt virus and tungro virus, and genes for tolerance to acid soil and cytoplasmic male sterility have been introgressed from different AA genome Oryza species, as well as, from distantly related genomes of wild species into elite breeding lines (Brar and Khush 2002; Multani et al. 2003).
