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Contents<br />

Foreword<br />

Preface<br />

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INTRODUCTION 1<br />

FUNCTIONS OF SEED HEALTH TESTING 3<br />

Cataloguing pathogens of crops 3<br />

Detection methods 3<br />

Post introduction measures 5<br />

THE MISSING LINK 6<br />

Epidemiology 6<br />

Disease and infection cycles 7<br />

Seed transmission 8<br />

Relationship between seedborne inoculum and 9<br />

disease development in the field<br />

Inoculum level and inoculum thresholds 9<br />

Risk analysis 10<br />

Microorganisms associated with seed 11<br />

SEED HEALTH MANAGEMENT FOR CROP PRODUCTION 12<br />

IDENTIFICATION OF FUNGI DETECTED ON RICE SEED 13<br />

Seedborne fungi causing foliage diseases in rice 14<br />

Alternaria padwickii 14<br />

Bipolaris oryzae 17<br />

Cercospora janseana 21<br />

Microdochium oryzae 24<br />

Pyricularia oryzae 27<br />

Seedborne fungi causing stem, leaf sheath, and root diseases in rice 31<br />

Fusarium moniliforme 31<br />

Sarocladium oryzae 35<br />

Seedborne fungi causing grain and infloresence diseases in rice 38<br />

Curvularia sp. 38<br />

Fusarium solani 42<br />

Nigrospora sp. 44<br />

Phoma sorghina 47<br />

Pinatubo oryzae 51<br />

Tilletia barclayana 53<br />

Other fungi detected on rice seeds 57<br />

Acremoniella atra 58<br />

Acremoniella verrucosa 58<br />

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