About Lesson
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
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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