Bacterial rice leaf blight (BLB), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), has a massive impact on the quality and productivity of rice. Besides BLB resistant rice cultivars, herbal extracts and nanosilver have increasingly demonstrated their important roles in controlling the disease as alternatives to synthetic chemical pesticides. | Herbal extracts in combination with nanosilver inhibit Bacterial leaf blight disease caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in rice