rice bacterial blight disease resistance rice seedling blight disease resistance kresek (related) TO:0000204 plant_trait_ontology A rice bacterial blight disease resistance (TO:0000175) that is involved in the response to rice bacterial blight disease, on a seedling. Causal agent: Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. Symptoms: lesions usually start near the leaf tips or leaf margins or both, and extend down the outer edge(s). Young lesions are pale to grayish green, later turning yellow to grey (dead) with time. In very susceptible varieties, lesions may extend to the entire leaf length into the leaf sheath. Kresek or seedling blight causes wilting and death of plant. SDLBTRS (related) leaf blight (related)