<b>BACTERIAL BLIGHT OF RICE (<i>XANTHOMONAS ORYZEA PV ORYZEA) </i>DISEASE AND ITS MANAGEMENT OPTIONS: AN OVERVIEW</b><b></b>

Bacterial blight is one of the most dangerous diseases of rice. If this disease enters in field it causes higher yield loss. Yield loss due to bacterial blight of rice is 70% when the susceptible varieties are grown and the environment has become favourable to the pathogen of this disease. The pathogen causing this disease is Xanthomonas oryzea Pv oryzea. The symptoms are appear in rice are wilting and leaves becoming yellow, Kresek (Wilting of seedlings). Patches of fields that do not germinate might be used to describe it. Even if the seeds do succeed in sprouting the seedling might not appear or they might appear but biome brown get pinched and eventually die. Additional signs include yellow or stunted development as well as diminished root growth and brown blotches on the roots and coleoptile.