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

  • Surviving structure: sclerotia
  • Primary inoculum: sclerotia in soil and plant debris, apothecia germinating from sclerotia
  • Secondary inoculum: air borne conidia
  • Transmission: air and water

Sclerotinia stem rot disease cycle. (A) Sclerotia of Sclerotinia... |  Download Scientific Diagram

Favorable condition:

  • High rainfall and cool tempr.

Management:

  • Crop rotation
  • Deep ploughing
  • Resistant varieties or tolerant varieties.
  • Early planting to avoid cool tempr and rainfall.
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