When fungicides were used, grain yield increased 9–40%
compared with the inoculated/non-sprayed treatments.
These increases were equal to or greater than the noninoculated
non-sprayed treatments, which demonstrated
that a single application of azoxystrobin fungicide was
effective in restoring yields to that obtained with low
disease pressure.
Yield losses observed in the inoculated/
non-sprayed treatments are typical for heavily infested
commercial rice fields and very important to the economic
return a rice producer would receive for his crop.
Undercurrent economic conditions,
this loss is $272 ha1 comparing the azoxystrobin treatment with the inoculated
non-sprayed treatment for Trenasse.