Cochliobolus miyabeanus

Cochliobolus miyabeanus
Symptoms of Cochliobolus miyabeanus on rice
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Pleosporaceae
Genus:	Cochliobolus
Species:	C. miyabeanus
Binomial name
Cochliobolus miyabeanus

Cochliobolus miyabeanus is a fungus that causes brown spot disease in rice. This disease was the causal agent of the Bengal famine of 1943.

It was used by the USA as a biological weapon in Japan during World War II.^[1]

See also

Fungi portal

list of rice diseases

References

1. ^ Suffert, Frédéric; Émilie Latxague and Ivan Sache (11 March 2009). "Plant pathogens as agroterrorist weapons: assessment of the threat for European agriculture and forestry". Food Security (Springer Netherlands) 1 (2): 221–232. doi:10.1007/s12571-009-0014-2. http://www.springerlink.com/content/jw473qk022660161/. Retrieved 14 May 2009. 

Sources

World Food Crisis: Meeting the demands of a growing population by Jeff Batten, APS/CPS Annual Meeting, Monday, August 9, 1999