BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- An international study has found how rice blast fungus spreads, providing insights on the control of rice blast, the most devastating rice disease in the world. Rice blast ...

For years, many farmers across Kashmir had gradually stopped growing Mushq Budji, the region’s prized aromatic rice, after ...

Scientists have made a new discovery that they hope might lead to effective control of rice blast disease. Rice blast is the most serious disease of cultivated rice and affects all the rice-growing ...

A fungus that kills an estimated 30 percent of the world's rice crop may finally have met its match, thanks to a research discovery made by scientists. A naturally occurring microbe in soil that ...

Many of the farmers who incurred losses last harvest season due to low prices of coarse rice, had opted for growing fine variety of rice this season. But cases of rice blast disease in the fine ...

A secret weapon used by the killer rice blast fungus to infect host plants has been discovered in new research. Rice blast is the most serious disease of rice and is caused by the fungus Magnaporthe ...

Australia's rice industry now has its first national protocol to detect the fungal disease rice blast. Rice blast has been found in the Northern Territory, Queensland and last year in the Ord Valley ...

We still have much to learn about the world's chief disease of rice — rice blast. That's clear from the finding that the culprit not only infects aerial plant tissues but can also invade roots like a ...