Abstract:In the summer season of 2016 and 2017, in some fields of Cauvery command area of Karnataka the rice crop showed stunted growth with brownish to black lesions without distinct margin on stem at the water level during tillering and reproductive phase . The causal organism was tissue isolated on potato dextrose agar, colonies of pure cultures showed white mycelium at first and after two days white coloured scelerotial formation started which later changed to chocolate brown and after five days became black colou… Show more
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