Question

A disease that produces water-soaked lesions on the leaf margins which later turn yellow and dry up, spreading rapidly under flooded field conditions, is caused by which pathogen?

Q: Answer-A disease that produces water-soaked lesions on the leaf margins which later turn yellow and dry up,...

Bacterial leaf blight of rice is caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, which produces water-soaked lesions along the leaf margins that later turn yellow and dry up, and spreads rapidly through standing water in flooded rice fields, entering the plant through wounds or natural openings such as hydathodes.