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Fig. 9. Occurrence of brown spot (Ou 1985, Agarwal and Mathur 1988, EPPO 1997).<br />

it Cochliobolus miyabeanus. Because of the bipolar<br />

germination of the conidia, the anamorph of C.<br />

miyabeanus was changed to Bipolaris oryzae.<br />

d. Importance in crop production<br />

Bipolaris oryzae causes seedling blight, necrotic<br />

spots on leaves and seeds, and also grain discoloration.<br />

Severely infected seeds may fail to germinate.<br />

Seedling blight is common on rice in both<br />

rainfed lowlands and uplands. Under these rice<br />

production situations, brown spot can be a serious<br />

disease causing considerable yield loss. In history,<br />

the Bengal famine of 1942 is attributed to brown<br />

spot.<br />

Detection on seed<br />

a. Incubation period on blotter<br />

B. oryzae is easily observed on seeds using the<br />

blotter method 5 d after seeding on moistened<br />

blotter incubated under NUV light at 22 °C. The<br />

detection frequency is about 56.7% on seeds coming<br />

from different regions (Fig. 10a,b).<br />

b. Habit character<br />

There are two types of fungal detection on rice<br />

seed: type I shows less conidia and abundant<br />

aerial mycelia, fluffy to cottony; gray, greenish<br />

gray to black; conidiophores are usually slender<br />

and hard to distinguish from main mycelia;<br />

conidia are darker than mycelia, borne singly on<br />

the terminal portion of the hyphae.<br />

Type II shows abundant conidia and aerial<br />

mycelia are either absent or scanty. Conidiophores<br />

are straight or flexuous, relatively long;<br />

simple, brown to dark brown, arising directly from<br />

seed surface either solitary or in small groups<br />

bearing conidia at the end and/or on the sides,<br />

usually with 3–5 conidia per conidiophore (Fig.<br />

11a-c).<br />

c. Location on seed<br />

B. oryzae is often observed on the entire seed<br />

surface (about 32%) or on sterile lemmas (about<br />

29%) (Fig. 12).<br />

Microscopic character<br />

a. Mycelium—gray to dark greenish gray, septate.<br />

b. Conidiophores—septate, solitary, or in small<br />

groups; straight or flexuous, sometimes geniculate<br />

(bent like a knee); simple; pale to mid-brown;<br />

bearing conidia at the end and on sides (Fig. 11d).<br />

c. Conidia—dark brown to olivaceous brown,<br />

obclavate, cymbiform, naviculart, fusiform,<br />

straight, or curved (slightly bent on one side). The<br />

largest conidia may have 13 pseudosepta with a<br />

prominent hilum or basal scar (Fig. 11e). Measurements:<br />

5–9 septate, 39.56–101.89 µ × 11.96–<br />

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