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Texas Rice June 2010 Volume X Number 4 Texas Beaumont, Texas Rice June 2010 Volume X Number 4 Past, Present, and Future Disease Management in Rice The Texas Rice Belt provides a warm, humid climate favorable for the development of many rice diseases. Rice diseases cause significant reductions in yield, grain quality, and income to rice growers. The development of diseases is greatly affected by many factors including varietal resistance, environmental conditions, and agronomic practices. As a result, the prevalence and severity of diseases significantly vary with year and location. However, losses from certain diseases can be reduced by the use of resistant varieties, improved practices and management, and effective fungicides and their combinations. The purpose Fig. 1. Severity of brown leaf spot in rice varieties affected by year of this article is to briefly review past of varietal release. and current rice diseases and their management and to outline future by Bipolaris oryzae in 1934, leaf smut caused by disease management of rice in Texas. Entyloma oryzae in 1934, narrow brown leaf spot Rice diseases have changed profoundly in caused by Cercospora janseana in 1935, and kernel severity and importance affecting grain yield over smut caused by Tilletia barclayana in 1936 (Atkins, the past 100 years of Texas rice production. Since the 1975). These diseases were commonly seen in rice first Texas rice production in the 1800’s, rice diseases fields. However, leaf smut, narrow brown leaf spot, have continued to be one of the factors limiting rice and kernel smut were minor in damage to rice. Brown production. It was believed that some of the earliest leaf spot could cause severe damage to rice under rice diseases were originally introduced along with favorable environmental conditions. The Bengal rice seeds imported from foreign countries such as famine of 1943, which caused an estimated 3 million Madagascar and Japan where the diseases already deaths (Lee, 1992), is an example that demonstrates occurred at that time. The earliest reports of rice diseases in Texas were brown leaf spot caused Continued on page 7 will describe photosynthesis research that focuses on From unraveling and better understanding why the yield of hybrids often out-performs conventional inbred the varieties. The second stop has a presentation by Shannon Pinson on research involving the genetics of Editor ... grain quality and disease resistance, and a presentation by Dante Tabien highlighting the Center’s inbred rice breeding program. The third stop features Fugen Dou, who will discuss his nutrient management research, and Lee Tarpley who will describe his plant physiology research. The last stop will involve presentations by Mo Way on his entomological research, and Shane The Eagle Lake and Beaumont Zhou on his plant pathology research. Field Days The Beaumont Center field tour will be followed by a general overview by Ted Wilson of state/regional Welcome to the June issue of Texas Rice. issues involving rice production, followed by three On June 29, our Center will be holding the 36th keynote presentations. Dennis DeLaughter who is Annual Eagle Lake Field Day. The theme of this year’s the President of Progressive Farm Management, will Field Day is Maximizing Profits – Minimizing Risk. A provide an overview of economics issues affecting field tour at the David R. Wintermann Rice Research rice production. Eric Webster, who is a Professor of Station starts at 4:00 PM with three field stops. Each weed management at LSU University, will provide field stop will focus on approaches producers can use an overview of issue involving weed resistance to increase the economic competitiveness of their management. Dr. Richard Norman, who is a professor operation while minimizing unacceptable risks. The of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences at the first stop will highlight the varietal improvement University of Arkansas, will end the morning program program, with Dante Tabien providing an overview. with a presentation on maximizing profits and The second stop will include a presentation by minimizing risks through fertilizer management. The Mo Way on his entomological research. Mo will morning program will be following by a luncheon. also introduce Fugen Dou who is the Center’s new If you are able to stick around during the afternoon, nutrient management scientist. The third field stop please plan on attending our afternoon field day. will involve a presentation by Garry McCauley on his Garry McCauley and Scott Senseman will highlight weed management research. Garry will also introduce research on weed management, Anna McClung and Xin-Gen (Shane) Zhou, who is the Center’s new plant Shane Zhou will provide presentations on organic pathologist. Shane is conducting a large number of rice research, and a team of scientists will describe experiments this year at the Eagle Lake station and the Center’s bioenergy crops research. at the Beaumont Center. The evening program will I would be remiss were I not to thank our growers, be held at the Eagle Lake Community Center with the dinner catered by Austin’s BBQ. L. G. Raun will Continued on page 11 provide an overview of Farm Policy Development, while Ron Gertson will discuss water issues as they relate to the Lower Colorado River Authority. Inside This Issue On July 8, our Center will hold the 63rd Annual Beaumont Field Day. The theme is also Maximizing Past, Present, and Future Disease Management in Profits – Minimizing Risk. The Field Day starts at 8:00 Rice . 1 AM and has four field stops, with each stop having Editorial: The Eagle Lake and Beaumont Field two speakers. The first stop features Omar Samonte, Days . 2 who will highlight the Center’s research on hybrid Beaumont Center Website Access Revisited . 3 heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor. Omar will Rice Crop Update . 12 be teamed with a presentation by Ted Wilson, who 2 Farming Rice A monthly guide for Texas growers Providing useful and timely information to Texas rice growers, so they may increase productivity and profitability on their farms. Beaumont Center Website Access Revisited In our July 2004 and 2008 issues of Texas Rice, approach to delivering research information, such we provided overviews of the amount and type of as the Texas Rice Newsletter. The new website was information being accessed by users of the Beaumont launched in early 2003. Since then access to the Center website. The current article provides an update site has increase at a high rate. The web statistics and describes trends in website use over time. summarized in Table 1 have increased from 27% to 45% per year from 2003 to 2010. The total hits, which History of the Center’s Web Access are a measure of the number of pages visited; the total The Beaumont Center website has been online visits, which are a measure of the number of separate since March 10, 2003. Prior to that time, our web occasions that individuals entered our website; and presence was limited to a single page that showed the number of unique visitors, have increased at a 27 a worker with a hard hat and a shovel with a sign to 44% annual rate. While the number of downloaded that said “Under Construction”. Although clever, it files has increased at a 31% annual rate, the volume was not particularly useful. In early 2002, the Center of information downloaded has increased at a 45% begin the development of a true web presence. The annual rate. The cumulative hours of web access, initial driving force was the need for an alternative although showing a 43% annual rate of increase, Table 1. Annual rate of use statistics for the Beaumont Center Web Site for 2003 to 2010. Estimated 2003 2010 Estimated Growth Category (Pro- 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008** 2009 (Pro- Annual Rate since rated) rated) of Growth Initiation Hits 613,736 1,417,879 1,968,160 2,379,013 2,432,349 3,608,010 4,582,828 6,088,881 38.79% 992% Total 71,995 149,731 218,545 299,232 361,910 381,135 710,866 903,979 43.54% 1,256% Visits*** Unique 12,473 25,244 33,629 41,046 43,519 55,320 59,900 67,915 27.39% 544% Visitors Files 61,847 94,336 128,771 156,886 164,631 164,174 285,146 411,094 31.07% 665% Downloaded Bytes of Downloaded 11.6 22 37 48.5 68.7 109 132.2 153.6 44.64% 1,324% Files (billion) Cumulative Hours of 3,748 45,521 113,289 98,144 18,285 44,732 74,650 45,549 42.87% 1,215% Website Access* * Web server updated in the latter part of 2006, providing more memory and a faster CPU, and again in 2009, thereby increasing server efficiency. ** Extrapolated due to the Webtrends going off-line for at least 1 month in 2009. *** From the “Top Directories” panel of Webtrends. Continued on the next page 3 Website Access ... is misleading, and access in fact is increasing at a higher rate than this number suggests. Every time the server is updated, the speed of access increases and the annual cumulative hours of CPU used decreases. For example, in late- 2006 and again in late-2009, the website was moved to a faster server and the amount of memory was increased. As a result, the cumulative hours of access decreased each of the following years, even when website access continued to increase. Pattern of Web Access In the two previous Internet use reviews (2004 and 2008), distinct patterns of daily user access were apparent. In contrast, while Friday’s have the largest number of web visits across days of the week, access during Friday’s was only marginally greater than observed for Mondays and Tuesday.
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