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Sheath Blight Disease of Paddy and Their Management

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Sheath blight of paddy is one of the most widely spreading diseases of paddy. This disease was first time reported from Japan in 1910 by Miyaki. But in India, Paracer and Chahal reported this disease from Gurdaspur (Punjab) only in 1963. Intensive and changed cultivar practices have intensified the severity of the disease. It is a potentially devastating disease of rice in all temperate and tropical rice production regions, especially in irrigated production systems (Dath 1990; Rush and Lee 1992a). Several estimates of yield reduction due to sheath blight have been reported, ranging from 5.2 to 69 % (Hori 1969; Kannaiyan and Prasad 1978; Naidu 1992); crop losses usually ranged from negligible to 50 % depending on the extent of severity and crop stages at which the disease appears and the environmental condition (Laha and Venkataraman 2001). Cultivar “Mahsuri” suffered as much as 69 % reduction in grain yield due to sheath blight. Mostly high yielding semi-dwarf varieties are susceptible to this disease, epidemic in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh during 1985 (Sinha and Prasad 2008). Recently, banded leaf blight symptoms of this disease have been reported from Uttar Pradesh. This disease also occurs in Kerala and parts of Tamil Nadu. It is becoming one of the important diseases of paddy.

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  1. Division of Plant Pathology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu, J & K, India

    Ashok Kumar Singh

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India

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Singh, A.K., Srivastava, J.N. (2015). Sheath Blight Disease of Paddy and Their Management. In: Awasthi, L.P. (eds) Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Plant Diseases. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2571-3_9

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