“…In all thirty six cultures, proved pathogenic on susceptible host "Yellow Globe" and were named as Sv-01, Sv-02, Sv-03; Sv-04, Sv-05, Sv-06 ; Sv-07, Sv-08, Sv-09 from three different onion fields from wadura, Achabal and Pattan of district Baramulla respectively, Sv-10 Sv-11 Sv-12; Sv-13, Sv-14, Sv-15; Sv-16, Sv-17, Sv-18 from Shalimar, Danderkah, and Noorbagh of district Srinagar, respectively, Sv-19, Sv-20, Sv-21; Sv-22, Sv-23, Sv-24; Sv-25, Sv-26, Sv-27 isolates from Chadoora, Magam, and Ompora of district Budgam, respectively, Sv-28, Sv-29, Sv-30; Sv-31, Sv-32, Sv-33; Sv-34, Sv-35, Sv-36 from Sangam, Bijbhera and Larnoo of district Anantnag, respectively and were used for study of genetic diversity. The cultural, morphological and pathogenic variability of these isolates is discussed in Hassan et al [10] .…”