Editing Rice (section)

=== Diseases ===

{{main|List of rice diseases}}

[[File:Rice blast.jpg|thumb|upright|Healthy rice (left) and rice with [[Magnaporthe grisea|rice blast]] ]]

[[Magnaporthe grisea|Rice blast]], caused by the fungus ''Magnaporthe grisea'', is the most serious disease of growing rice.<ref name="Dean Talbot Ebbole 2005">{{cite journal |display-authors=3 |last1=Dean |first1=Ralph A. |last2=Talbot |first2=Nicholas J. |last3=Ebbole |first3=Daniel J. |last4=Farman |first4=Mark L. |last5=Mitchell |first5=Thomas K. |last6=Orbach |first6=Marc J. |last7=Thon |first7=Michael |last8=Kulkarni |first8=Resham |last9=Xu |first9=Jin-Rong |last10=Pan |first10=Huaqin |title=The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=434 |issue=7036 |pages=980–986 |date=April 2005 |pmid=15846337 |doi=10.1038/nature03449 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2005Natur.434..980D }}</ref> 
It and [[bacterial leaf streak]] (caused by [[Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae|''Xanthomonas oryzae'' pv. ''oryzae'']]) are perennially the two worst rice diseases worldwide; they are both among the ten most important diseases of all crop plants.<ref name="Liu Liu Triplett Leach 2014">{{cite journal |last1=Liu |first1=Wende |last2=Liu |first2=Jinling |last3=Triplett |first3=Lindsay |last4=Leach |first4=Jan E. |last5=Wang |first5=Guo-Liang |title=Novel Insights into Rice Innate Immunity Against Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens |journal=Annual Review of Phytopathology |volume=52 |issue=1 |date=August 4, 2014 |doi=10.1146/annurev-phyto-102313-045926 |pages=213–241|pmid=24906128 }}</ref> Other major rice diseases include [[sheath blight]] (caused by ''[[Rhizoctonia solani]]''), false smut (''[[Ustilaginoidea virens]]''), and bacterial panicle blight (''[[Burkholderia glumae]]'').<ref name="Liu Liu Triplett Leach 2014"/> Viral diseases include rice bunchy stunt, rice dwarf, rice [[tungro]], and rice yellow mottle.<ref name="Hibino-1996">{{cite journal |last=Hibino |first=H. |title=Biology and epidemiology of rice viruses |journal=[[Annual Review of Phytopathology]]|volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=249–274 |year=1996 |pmid=15012543 |doi=10.1146/annurev.phyto.34.1.249 |publisher=[[Annual Reviews (publisher)|Annual Reviews]] }}</ref>