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:

  • Saprophyte in nature
  • Resting satge: zygospore
  • Primary inoculum: zygospore, sporangiospore
  • Secondary inoculum: wind borne conidia
  • Transmission: air, water

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Management

  • Treat the seeds with thiram or carbendazim at 2g/kg.
  • Control the caterpillars feeding on the heads.
  • Spray the head with Mancozeb at 2kg/ha during intermittent rainy season and repeat after 10 days, if the humid weather persists.
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