<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Evaluation and Selection Of Elite Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria For Suppression Of Sheath Blight Of Rice Caused By Rhizoctonia Solani In A Detached Leaf Bio-Assay</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">K V K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Kumar</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Reddy</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Yellareddygari</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J W</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Kloepper</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">K S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Lawrence</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">X G</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Zhou</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">H</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Sudini</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M E</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Miller</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Sheath blight (ShB) of rice, caused by Rhizoctonia solani, is one of the most important rice&#13;
diseases worldwide. The objective of this study was to screen selected plant growth-promoting&#13;
rhizobacteria (PGPR) strains for suppression of ShB under controlled conditions. Sclerotia of R. solani&#13;
were produced on PDA and immature sclerotia (&lt; 5-day-old) were harvested. Leaves of 60-day-old rice&#13;
plants grown under greenhouse conditions were used to screen PGPR strains by detached leaf assay. Leaf&#13;
sections of 8 cm in length were cut and placed in Petri dishes, inoculated with immature sclerotia, and&#13;
incubated in a growth chamber. Approximately 70 PGPR strains were screened. The disease was&#13;
quantified by the Relative Lesion Height (RLH) method. Among 70 strains, 31 significantly suppressed&#13;
the RLH of ShB lesions compared to the control. Among these, Bacillus subtilis strain MBI 600 resulted&#13;
in greatest suppression of ShB disease severity under the conditions tested</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2011</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>International Journal of Applied Biology and Pharmaceutical Technology</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>