Contents: Foreword,Preface,List of figures,Chapter I The rice blast,Chapter II Sheath blight,Chapter III Brown spot,Chapter IV Stem rot,Chapter V Sheath rot,Chapter VI Fusariosis,Chapter VII Diseases of secondary importance,Chapter VIII False smut,Chapter IX Kernel bunt (Grain smut),Chapter X Fungi on and in rice seeds,Chapter XI Mycotoxins in rice,Bibliography,Index.