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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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Etiology:

Banded Leaf and Sheath Blight of Maize: Historical Perspectives, Current  Status and Future Directions | SpringerLink

Favorable condition

  • The optimum temperature for the disease to occur is 28-30°C
  • relative humidity of  90-100%, below 70 percent is not favourable for disease to occur or is negligible
  • Disease spreading is highly influenced by high relative humidity and rainfall.
  • Rainfall over 100 mm in the first two weeks of infection favours early infection and disease development in plant.
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