About Lesson
A) Fungal diseases :
1. Blast: Foliar disease and the pathogen survives on collateral hosts
2. Brown spot of rice – Seed borne and a foliar disease
3. Sheath rot, sheath blight, foot rot and stem rot – Soil borne diseases
4. False smut – seed borne disease
B) Bacterial diseases: Bacterial leaf blight and bacterial leaf streak – Seed borne and survives on collateral hosts and weeds
C) Viral or Phytoplasmal diseases – Rice tungro virus, Rice yellow dwarf – Survives on weeds and dissemination is by insect vectors.
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