Department of Plant pathology, G B Pant University of Agricultural and Technology, Pantnagar 263 145, India
Online published on 20 December, 2012.
The primary infection of sugarcane smut caused by Ustilago scitaminea Sydow showed significant positive correlation with minimum temperature (r = 0.937). Secondary infection of smut had significant negative correlation with soil temperature(r = -0.880). Among various abiotic factors, minimum temperature and soil temperature were most influencing with a contributing 87and 77% variation in primary and secondary infections respectively.
Smut incidence, Sugarcane, Ustilago scitaminea, Weather parameters
