Rice is one of the world's most essential food crops, but its production is constantly threatened by leaf diseases caused by pathogens such as fungi, bacteria, and viruses. These diseases ...

Shuai Feng and Chunling Chen’s team from Shenyang Agricultural University, have developed a novel vegetation index—the Rice ...

After being infected, the seedling height, leaf length ... destructive detection was performed on rice plants infected with early stage of bakanae disease using hyperspectral imaging technology ...

Among these strains, Guotian identified one with dark patches on its leaves. “He found that the ... including the fungus that causes rice blast. In small-scale field trials planted in disease-heavy ...

One of the main issues is that fungicides used to control diseases on crops are no longer working. “It's getting to the point where we used to be able to rely on the rice fungicides and we can ...