| Symptom |
Control |
Yellow rust : Small yellow pustules arranged in stripes are formed on the
leaves. |
Sow resistant varieties. |
| Brown rust : Small brown pustules are formed on leaves. |
Sow resistant varieties. |
| Loose smut : The affected plants produce black smutted ears containing loosely held spore mass. |
1. Rogue out smutted ears as and when they appear and destroy them.
2. Treat seed will vitavax/ Bavistin @ 2.5 g/kg seed. |
| Stripe disease : The symptoms are manifested on leaf blades and leaf sheaths in the form of yellow stripes, soon turning brown and resulting in drying up of the leaves. |
1. Treat seed with Agrosan GN @ 2.5 g/kg seed.
2. Use disease free seed. |
| Covered smut : The grains are replaced by black spore masses which do not fall a part as in loose smut but are held together by the ovary wall and the glumes. |
Treat seed with Agrosan GN @ 2.5g/kg seed. |