Abstract

Burkholderia glumae is an agent of bacterial seedling rot and bacteria grain rot of rice, devastating diseases in north area and southwest area of Japan, respectively. In growing seedlings, bacterial seedling rot is caused by a rapid increase in the B. glumae population in the plumules (3). After transplanting into paddy fields, the pathogen exists in the upper leaf sheaths containing the flag leaf sheaths, invades into the flowering spikelets and multiplies rapidly, and causes bacterial grain rot (4).

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