Pseudomonas fuscovaginae (Pfv) is an emerging plant pathogen of rice and also of other gramineae
plants. It causes sheath brown rot disease in rice with symptoms that are characterized by brown lesions on the
flag leaf sheath, grain discoloration and sterility. It was first isolated as a high altitude pathogen in Japan and has
since been reported in several countries throughout the world. Pfv is a broad host range pathogen and very little is
known about its virulence mechanisms