Sentence examples for sheath blight from inspiring English sources

MH63 is relatively resistant to sheath blight.

Sheath blight represents one of the predominant diseases in rice.

Rice sheath blight disease (ShB), caused by Rhizoctonia solani, gives rise to significant grain yield losses.

However, the roles of WRKY transcription factors in rice denfense against sheath blight is quite limited.

Additionally, rice sheath blight is a necrotrophic disease (Zhao et al. 2008).

b Progression of sheath blight disease evaluated by quantitating R. solani genomic DNA using qPCR analysis.

Antifungal activities against rice sheath blight (RSB) and sorghum anthracnose (SA) were evaluated by the mycelium linear growth rate method.

Defensins (Dm-AMP1 and Rs-AFP2) seem to confer good levels of resistance to both blast and sheath blight.

For sheath blight only, the best gene so far seems to be the Dm-AMP1 gene (Table 1).

Han et al. (2002) identified two QTLs, qSB-5 and qSB-9 for sheath blight resistance from MH63.

Rice blast (Magnaporthe oryzae) and sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani) are the two most devastating fungal diseases of rice (Oryza sativa).