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Fungal disease which causes head blight and occurs mainly in the warm regions. After heading, the whole infected heads are covered with gray to black colony. Later the fungus fasten each head spike and the whole head looks grayish black moldy. White colony appears on the surface of the leaf like the stripe along the leaf vein. It is reported that the causal organism is infected in the entire plant as an epiphyte and the infected plant becomes resistant to insects such as grasshopper. |
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