May 2023

Relationship between rice blast severity and the rice growth stage for accurate selection of rice breeding material for improved rice production in Africa

To improve the disease resistance of adapted rice genotypes, fourteen rice genotypes selected from previous field screening and four controls (two resistant and two susceptible) were screened in greenhouse trials against ten Beninese and four East African pathogenic isolates at rice seedling and tillering stages. Results show that across isolates, no significant difference was observed between disease severity on tested...

Author(s): Murielle FANTODJI, Bonaventure Cohovi AHOHUENDO, Drissa SILUE and Andreas von TIEDEMANN