Indian Journal of Plant Physiology
  • Year: 1989
  • Volume: 32o
  • Issue: 1

Nutrient composition of the leaf laminae affected by red leaf spot disease in sugarcane

  • Author:
  • R.K. Rai, Kishan Singh, Ramji Lal, S.P. Shukla, Ram Darash, A.K. Ghosh, A.K. Shrivastva, Y.R. Saxena
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 83 to 85

Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow-226002

Abstract

Sugarcane cultivars affected with red leaf spot disease showed to have more protein content; silica, copper, iron, manganese and zinc as compared to the healthy ones. Phosphorus and total nitrogen content, on the other hand, decreased in the diseased plants.