Survey to Know the Status of Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. causing Foot Rot in Irrigated Finger Millet of Southern Karnataka

Author: Raveendra, H.R., Mallikarjuna, N., Sahana S.R.* Shubhashree, K.S. and Madhusudan, K.

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Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn) is one of the important nutri millet crop of India. It is one of the staple food crop grown by subsistence farmers in the semi-arid tropics of South Asia and Africa. Due to its greater tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses, better suitability for different cropping systems and contingent crop plans; it is cultivated on varied soil and climatic conditions compared to other cereals. Among these diseases, foot rot is one of the important emerging diseases of Finger Millete specially under irrigated and high rainfall situations. To know the foot rot disease occurrence and incidence of S. rolfsii a roving survey was undertaken during 2018-19 in southern districts of Karnataka viz., Mysuru, Mandya, Ramanagara, Chamarajanagara, Hassan and Tumkuru. The survey data revealed that; mean foot rot disease incidence varied from 4.45 to 19.19 per cent in different locations. The highest mean per cent disease incidence was recorded in the Mandya distric

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Finger millet, Sclerotium rolfsii, foot rot, Hotspot, Incidence.

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