Course Content
Black or stem rust of wheat
0/5
Causative agents and symptom
Etiology
Favorable environment, Survive and spread
Disease cycle
Management of the disease
Leaf or Brown or orange rust of wheat
0/5
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle
Management
Yellow or strip rust of wheat
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Loose smut of wheat
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Pathogen
Favorable condition, Survival and Spread
Disease cycle and management
Kernel bunt of wheat
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Dwarf bunt : Causative agent and Etiology
Favorable condition, Survival and Spread
Disease cycle and management
Common bunt of wheat
Yellow ear rot/Tundu disease of wheat
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Management
Ear-cockle of Wheat
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Favorable condition, Survival and Spread
Disease cycle:
Management
Tan spot of wheat
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology:
Favorable condition, Survival and Spread
Disease cycle and management
Molaya disease of wheat
0/2
Causative agent and Symptom
Management:
Downy mildew of maize
0/5
Causative agent
Symptoms:
Pathogen
Favorable Conditions, survival and spread
Management:
Northern leaf blight of maize
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Southern leaf blight
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Gray leaf spot of maize
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Charcoal rot or hollow stem or stalk rot blight
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Banded leaf and sheath blight(BLBS)
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Bacterial Stalk rot of maize
0/6
Causative agent and Symptom
Basal rot
Top rot
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Management
Fusarium stalks and ear rot of maize
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Charcoal rot/root rot of sunflower
0/3
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Disease cycle and management
Rhizopus head rot
0/3
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Disease cycle and management
Sclerotina head or stem rot
0/2
Causative agent and Symptom
Disease cycle, favorable condition and management
Angular leaf spot/ bacterial blight/boll rot/black arm of cotton
0/3
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Disease cycle and management
Fusarium wilt
0/3
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Disease cycle and management
Bacterial leaf blight of Rice
0/3
Causative agent and Symptom
Favorable condition, Survival and Spread
Disease cycle and management
Bacterial leaf streak of Rice
0/3
Causative agent and Symptom
Favorable condition, Survival and Spread
Management
Rice blast
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Brown Spot or Sesame leaf spot or Helminthosporiose of Rice
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Narrow brown spot /narrow brown leaf spot/ cercospora leaf spot of Rice
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
False smut of rice
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Foot rot or bakane disease of rice
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and Management
Sheath blight of Rice
0/4
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Survive and spread
Disease cycle and management
Sheath rot of Rice
0/3
Causative agent and Symptom
Etiology and Favorable condition
Disease cycle and management
Rice tungro virus
0/1
Causative agent and Symptom
Rice grassy stunt virus
0/1
Causative agent and Symptom
Rice ragged stunt virus
0/1
Causative agent and Symptom
Rice yellow dwarf disease
0/1
Causative agent and Symptom
Learn crop diseases and their management with Braimy- B.Sc agriculture
About Lesson

  Causative agent:  Ustilaginoidea virens (Syn: Claviceps oryzae – sativa)

  • Affects only panicle initiation to maturity.

Symptoms:

  • Individual rice grain transformed into a mass of velvety spores or yellow fruiting bodies
  • Growth of velvety spores enclose floral parts
  • Immature spores slightly flattened, smooth, yellow, and covered by a membrane.
  • Growth of spores result to broken membrane
  • Mature spores orange and turn yellowish green or greenish black
  • Only few grains in a panicle are usually infected and the rest are normal.

Fact sheet - Rice false smut (428)

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