EPPO Global Database

Pyricularia oryzae(PYRIOR)

Distribution details in Australia (Western Australia)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2021: Present, no details
From CABI Disease map 051 (1981): Present, no details
References
* INTERNET
- Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Forestry. National pest and disease outbreaks. Rice blast. National Management Group (NMG) communiqué of 2011-09-09. http://www.outbreak.gov.au/pests_diseases/pests_diseases_plant/rice-blast/index.html
------- Eradication no longer considered feasible.

- IPPC website. Official Pest Reports – Australia. Detection of Rice blast (caused by Magnaporthe grisea) in the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) of Western Australia (2011-08-22).
https://www.ippc.int/index.php

- - Promed posting (no 20121001.1317172) of 2012-10-01. Blast disease, rice - Australia (02): (Western Australia) new strain suspected. http://www.promedmail.org
------- A new strain is suspected to be responsible of the outbreak in Western Australia.

- Promed posting (no 20110812.2442) of 2011-08-11. Blast disease, rice - Australia: (Western Australia). http://www.promedmail.org
------- Outbreak reported in the Kimberleys' Ord Valley.

* Pak D, You MP, Lanoiselet V, Barbetti MJ (2021) Management of rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae): implications of alternative hosts. European Journal of Plant Pathology 161(2), 343-355.
------- damaging on rice.

* You MP, Lanoiselet V, Wang CP, Shivas RG, Li YP, Barbetti MJ (2012) First report of rice blast (Magnaporthe oryzae) on rice (Oryza sativa) in Western Australia. Plant Disease 96(8), p 1228.