Abstract:
A method for separating M. oryzae from rice samples infected with multiple pathogens using basic laboratory equipment is described. We conducted a series of experiments to obtain a single spore of M. oryzae. This method can also be used to isolate spores from other fungal species.Section snippets
CRediT authorship contribution statement
S. Terensan: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Visualization,
Validation, Software, Methodology, Investigation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis,
Data curation, Conceptualization. H.N.S. Fernando: Validation, Resources, Methodology.
J.N. Silva: Validation, Methodology. N.S. Kottearachchi: Writing – review & editing,
Supervision, Methodology, Conceptualization. O.V.D.S.J. Weerasena: Writing – review &
editing, Supervision, Methodology, Conceptualization. ...
Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal
relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. ...
Acknowledgements
We extend our gratitude to the Pathology Division team at the Rice Research and
Development Centre, Bombuwala, Sri Lanka, for their invaluable technical support and
for supplying the positive blast diseased samples, which greatly aided us in honing our
isolation techniques. Our sincere appreciation goes to Mr. S. Sivaneson of the Regional
Rice Research Station, Paranthan, Sri Lanka, for his assistance in collecting diseased
samples. Additionally, we acknowledge the generous contribution of ...
