Course Content
Common bunt of wheat
Angular leaf spot/ bacterial blight/boll rot/black arm of cotton
0/3
Rice tungro virus
0/1
Rice grassy stunt virus
0/1
Rice ragged stunt virus
0/1
Rice yellow dwarf disease
0/1
Learn crop diseases and their management with Braimy- B.Sc agriculture
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Disease cycle:

  • Seed borne disease
  • Surviving structure: sclerotia, pycnidia
  • Primary source of inoculum: sclerotia and infected seed
  • Secondary inoculum: wind borne conidia
  • Transmission: wind, water

Charcoal Rot in Corn | Pioneer Seeds

Management:

  • whenever the soil becomes dry and the soil temperature rises then irrigation should be provided.
  • Seed treatment with Trichoderma virideformulation at 4 g/kg seed.
  • In endemicareas long crop rotation should be followed.
  • Treat the seeds with Carbendazim  or Thiram at 2/kg
  • Spot drench with Carbendazim at 500 mg/litre.
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