Percent penetration on a specific rice variety was more affected by blast fungus isolate or predisposition temperature than by temperature and isolate combinations. A susceptible variety tested remained continuously susceptible regardless of whether the variety was grown at different temperature regimes and exposed to isolates/races with differences in pathogenicity and virulence. The expression of virulence by a particular blast fungus isolate race was observed to be changed by subjecting rice host plants to different predisposing temperature conditions prior to inoculation.