[Objectives] The paper was to identify the characteristics and the potency of new fungicides to rice blast disease, and study their preventive and therapeutic effects on the disease. [Methods] Six new
Number of seedlings sprayed (Seedlings) and glyphosate-resistant (R) seedlings, of seed collected in situ from susceptible plants of each species from 2003 through 2006.
Magnaporthe oryzae, which causes the devastating rice-blast disease, invades its host plants via a specialized infection structure called the appressorium. Previously, we showed that the ATP-Binding C