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Contents GENETIC EVALUATION AND UTILIZATION Overall progress 14 Influence of neem cake and coal-tar-coated urea on bacterial blight of 3 Prevention of lodging in rice plants during rapid generation advance rice 3 Submergence-tolerance screening of rice during rapid generation advance 14 Effect of some fungicides on the control of narrow brown leaf spot of rice 4 Selection for earliness or short growth duration during rapid generation 15 Incidence of bacterial blight of rice in the Punjab, Pakistan advance in rice breeding 15 Fungicidal control of sheath blight 4 Problems and prospects of rice in Manipur 15 Effect of nitrogen and spacing on sheath blight incidence in rice 5 Natural outcrossing on cytoplasmic male sterile lines of rice under tropical 16 Rice blast — races or virulence frequencies? conditions 16 Rice ragged stunt disease in Annamalainagar, Tamil Nadu, India 6 Genetic composition of parents used in crosses and of subsequent rice 16 Studies on udbatta disease in Karnataka, India varieties 17 Enchinochloa crus-galli (L.) Beauv. — a new host for Rhynchosporium oryzae Hashioka and Yokogi Disease resistance 17 Survey of rice nematodes in deepwater rice fields 7 Sheath rot incidence and chaffy grain percentage on some popular rices 7 Outbreak of sheath rot on rice 8 CAS 209 — a new variety for differentiating virulence of X. oryzae Insects 8 Amendments to Acrocylindrium oryzae spore suspension to induce sheath 18 Egg parasites of yellow stem borer in southern Sri Lanka rot infection of rice 18 Survival of rice bug Leptocorisa oratorius on graminaceous weeds during 9 Life span of and tungro transmission by viruliferous Nephotettix virescens the fallow period between rice cropping in Sri Lanka on 10 rice varieties at LPPM, Indonesia 19 Euscyrtus concinnus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) — a new rice pest in the 10 Rice cultivars with disease resistance Philippines 10 Life span of and tungro transmission by viruliferous Nephotettix virescens 19 Stylectomy of plant-sucking insects using a YAG laser to collect rice phloem on 10 rice varieties at CRRI, India sap 20 Effectiveness and economics of granular insecticides for control of hispa Insect resistance 21 Influence of ammonium phosphate levels on rice leaf roller incidence 10 Rice yield losses due to gall midge infestation in northern Thailand SOIL AND CROP MANAGEMENT Deep water 11 Effect of submergence tolerance screening during rapid generation advance 21 Effect of liming on the control of green algae in blue-green algae multiplica- on heading duration and productivity tion fields 12 Kneeing ability test of promising deepwater rice selections 22 Response of rice varieties to zinc treatment in farmers’ fields at DND 12 Evaluation of rice cultures for submergence tolerance and grain yield under irrigation project, BWDB, Bangladesh lowland conditions at Tripura 22 Role of direct-seeded rice in Sudan Gezira crop rotation 23 Effect of phosphorus fertilization on “priming” of native phosphorus by rice Temperature tolerance in acid soils of Assam 13 A method for testing cold tolerance of rice at early seedling stage PEST MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL RICE-BASED CROPPlNG SYSTEMS Diseases 23 Effect of rainfall pattern on the shift in farmers’ rice cropping patterns in 14 Widespread occurrence of sheath rot in Bihar Bangladesh Guidelines and Style Genetic evaluation and utilization for OVERALL PROGRESS IRRN Contributors Prevention of lodging in rice plants some leaf pruning is done, additional during rapid generation advance support is provided, or a chemical is sprayed to prevent plant elongation. M. Eunus, Bangladesh Agricultural The tests we conducted showed that To improve communication and to speed the University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh; H. editorial process, the editors of the Inernational pruning the plants at 15 cm above the Rice Research Newsletter (IRRN) request that Ikehashi, National Institute of Agricultural contributors use the following guidelines and style: Science, Tsukuba, Japan, and B. S. Vergara ground 22 days after sowing prevented the plants from becoming too tall but Style and J. Peralta, Plant Physiologr, International Rice Research Institute did not significantly delay flowering. • Use the metric system in all papers. Avoid During pruning, one could also national units of measure (such as cavans, rai. etc.). • Express all yields in tons per hectare (t/ha) or, The maintenance of high nitrogen levels inoculate the plants for bacterial blight with small-scale studies, in grams per pot (g/pot) or at the seedling stage is imperative for by the clipping technique. grams per row (g row). • Define in footnotes or legends any abbreviations hastening flowering time during rapid Premature lodging can also be or symbols used in a figure or table. generation advance (RGA). Dense minimized by spraying B995 at • Place the name or denotation of compounds or chemicals near the unit of measure. For example: spacing is needed to accommodate large 4,000 ppm on 35day-old seedlings. Plant 60 kg N/ha: not 60 kg/ha N. numbers of segregating plants during height can be reduced by as much as • The US dollar is the standard monetary unit for the IRRN. Data in other currencies should be RGA. The high nitrogen level and dense 40%, depending on the variety or line. converted to US$. spacing conditions cause the breeding Another way of preventing lodging in • Abbreviate names of standard units of measure when they follow a number. For example: 20 kg/ha. materials to become tall and to lodge as plants growing in the RGA carts is to • When using abbreviations other than for units of early as 3 weeks after planting. This provide metal posts at each corner. The measure, spell out the full name the first time of reference with abbreviation in parenthesis, then use creates inconvenience in raising the posts should have holes for strings that the abbreviation throughout the remaining text. For materials. Some plants may die unless can help support the plants. example: The efficiency of nitrogen (N) use was tested. Three levels of N were ... or Biotypes of the brown planthopper (BPH) differ within Asia. We studied the biotypes of BPH in ... • Express time, money, and measurement in Submergence-tolerance screening of rice numbers, even when the amount is less than 10. For example: 8 years; 3 kg/ha at 2-week intervals; 7%; during rapid generation advance sown in vials (3.0 cm diam, 4.5 cm high) 4 hours. and in square pots (5.2 cm diam, 5.0 cm • Write out numbers below 10 except in a series high). Each vial or pot contained a single containing some numbers 10 or higher and some S. K. Bardhan Roy, J. Peralta, and B. S. numbers lower than 10. For example: six parts; Vergara, Plant Physiology Department, plant, and was replicated three times. seven tractors; four varieties. But There were 4 plots Plants were submerged 10 days after in India, 8 plots in Thailand, and 12 plots in International Rice Research Institute Indonesia. sowing for 7 days and percentage of • Write out all numbers that start sentences. For In rainfed wetland rice culture, total survival of each variety was recorded 7 example: Sixty insects were added to each cage; Seventy-five percent of the yield increase is attributed submergence of the rice plant is days after treatment. to fertilizer use. common, especially just after The known submergence-tolerant Guidelines transplanting. Varieties for this situation varieties FR 13A, Thavalu 153 14, need submergence tolerance. It has been Kurkaruppan, and Thavalu 15325 did • Contributions to the IRRN should generally be based on results of research on rice or on cropping shown that varietal differences in not differ in survival ability in the two patterns involving rice. submergence tolerance exist and that • Appropriate statistical analyses are required for containers. Susceptible varieties like most data. screening for the trait at the seedling IR42, IR38, IR8 showed different results • Contributions should not exceed two pages of stage is easy. double-spaced, typewritten text. Two figures (graphs, but equally poor survival. The mean tables, or photos) per contribution are permitted to In rainfed wetland rice where survival percentage of all varieties is supplement the text. The editor will return articles that exceed space limitations. photoperiod-sensitive varieties may be greater in vials than in square pots, but • Results of routine screening of rice cultivars are required, the breeding process is the difference is not statistically discouraged. Exceptions will be made only if screening reveals previously unreported information accelerated through rapid generation significant. (for example, a new source of genetic resistance to advance (RGA). A study investigated the Thus, vials can be used instead of rice pests). possibility of screening for submergence • Announcements of the release of new rice square pots in tests for submergence varieties are encouraged. tolerance during the RGA process tolerance. The vials will save space, but • Use common – not trade – names for commercial chemicals and, when feasible, equipment, crosses for rainfed wetland rice. The the green pots have a larger volume of • Do not include references in IRRN efficiency of two types of containers was soil and provide larger panicles. If contributions. also tested. Presoaked seeds of 9 • Pest surveys should be quantified with data (% screening is at F 4 , more seeds may be infection, degree of severity, etc.). susceptible and resistant varieties were required and a larger container like the IRRN 5:5 (October 1980) 3 Survival of 9 rice varieties in 2 types of of two crosses — 1R20654 (K78- IR20654 were lost. In a large F 2 containers submerged for 7 days at seedling 13/IR5908-125-1) and IR22553 population, an average loss of 21% may stage. IRRI, 1980. (Fujisaka 5/Knl B-361-8-6-9) — were be permissible. Mean percentage of survival Variety sown in plastic pots (5.2 cm diam × 5.0 Of the F 3 population that resulted Vial Square pot cm high) filled with soil and added from selection for earliness in F 2 of the Thavalu 15314 100 100 fertilizer.