The development of bacterial blight in plants, especially crops, its signs and indications, and what about the science of predicting it, and the mistakes in practices that in turn lead to it, and are they the beginnings of false or loose smut
In rice the bacterial diseases are stimulated by high nitrogen in the plants it is called the rich man diseases in India.
Fungal stalk disease are associated with a potassium deficit are called poor man disease of rice.
Japanese workers have found silicon loving plants like grass including rice are greatly improved in health in weathered soils low in silicon and the addition of silicon can reduce but bacterial and fungal disease reduce pest attacks and reduce the water needed for optimizing yields.
For plant health the use of plant tissue and soil testing should be combined with a strategy in improve plant nutrition and health.