Home > Crops & Livestock > Crops > Rice > Diseases > Rice Disease Identification PowerPoint [Image: Falsesmut] Identification of rice diseases based on plant part infected and symptoms utilizing a PowerPoint presentation with photo links. Some of the diseases included are sheath blight, blast, bacterial panicle blight, cercospora and kernel smut. Rice Disease Management Powerpoint Presentations [Image: Falsesmut] Understanding the epidemiology and management of the major rice diseases through a series of powerpoint presentations. Louisiana Plant Pathology: Shealth Blight of Rice [Image: shealth blight] Sheath blight has been the most economically significant disease of rice in Louisiana since the early 1970s. The disease is caused by a fungal pathogen of both rice and soybeans. This fact sheet describes the symptoms of the disease and gives suggested management procedures. Rice Diseases of Louisiana [Image: rice diseases] This publication describes the major rice diseases in the southern United States rice-growing region. Detailed color images of bacterial panicle blight, blast, grain smuts, narrow brown leaf spot, shealth blight, sheath rot, stem rot, water mold and stem rot are included.  more articles... Fungicide Timing Critical for Maximum Return [Image: Sheath blight fungus] Rice diseases pose a major threat to rice production. The two major diseases, sheath blight and blast, cause significant yield and quality reductions that cost farmers millions of dollars each year. Plant Disease Management Guide [Image: disease guide] This guide for 2009 contains suggestions for management of the most important or more prevalent diseases of Louisiana plants. It includes information on fungicides, bactericides and nematicides, as well as safety precautions for using them. Sheath Blight [Image: symptoms of sheath blight in mature rice] Photographs of sheath blight symptoms on rice.