rice cake disease bacteria; blister blight bacteria
Technical term in plant pathology; refers to bacteria causing a disease that makes rice grains look like mochi (rice cakes).
See also: 餅 (もち)
Rice cake disease bacteria deform rice grains into a mochi-like shape.
Formed from 餅病, the plant disease known as blister blight, and 菌 “fungus.” The pathogen is a fungus, and the disease name refers to the swollen, rice-cake-like appearance of affected tissue.