“…Sorghum red stripe virus (SRSV), reported to infect various grain sorghum cultivars in the Parbhani and Marthwada regions of Maharashtra state in India, induces mosaic, red stripes and general necrosis on sorghum (Mali 2001). Occurrence of SrMV is limited but this virus is thought to infect sorghum in India (Mali 1999). Many of these mosaic diseases on sorghum in India caused by viruses were reported earlier, but none of the causal viruses have been characterized at the molecular level.…”