Plant Disease Research
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 26
  • Issue: 2

Effect of meteorological parameters on development of sheath blight disease in paddy

  • Author:
  • Upma Dutta, C.S. Kalha
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 122 to 126

Division of Plant Pathology, SKUAST-J, Chatha, Jammu-180 002

Abstract

Studies on role of weather variables in the development of rice sheath blight disease revealed that high and frequent rains with moderate temperature (up to 30oC) coupled with high relative humidity (>90 per cent) favoured the spread of disease.

Keywords

Weather parameters, sheath blight, paddy, Rhizoctonia solani