Disease of Agronomical crops
Wheat
- Rust:
a) Black stem rust: Puccinia graminis tritici
b) Leaf/ brown/ orange rust: Puccinia recondite tritici
2. Kernal bunt of wheat: Telietia spp.
3. Ear cockle of wheat: Anguina tritici
4. Powdery Mildew: Erysiphe polygoni
Rice:
a) Blast: Pyricularia oryzae
b) Blight: Xanthomonas campestris pv oryzae
c) Brown spot: Helminthosporium oryzae ( caused Bengal famine)
d) Foot rot/ Bakane’s disease: Fusarium moniliformae
e) False smut: Ustilaginoidea virens
Maize
a) Common smut: Ustilago maydis
b) Head smut: Sphacelotheca reilana
c) Brown spot: Phyoderma zeae-maydis
d) Downy mildew: Sclerospora phillippiensis , Sclerophthora rayssiae
e) Stalk and foot rot: Fusarium moniliformae, Macrophemina phaseolina , Giberella zeae
f) Soft rot wilt: Erwinia sp. , Xanthomonas sp.
Barley
a) Loose smut : Ustilago nuda
b) Covered smut: Ustilago hordei
Pigeon pea
a) Wilt: Fusarium oxysporium sp. udum
Gram
a) Blight: Ascochyta rabei
b) Wilt: Fusarium oxysporum var. orthoceros
Soyabean
a) Bacterial leaf spot: xanthomonas campestris var. phaseoli
b) Leaf spot : Cercospora sojina
c) Pod blight: Colletotrichum sp.
Pea
a) Rust: Uromyces fabae
b) Downy mildew: Perenospora pisis
c) Powdery mildew: Erysiphe polygoni
Ground nut
a) Tikka disease: Cercospora personata , Cercospora arachidicola
b) Rust: Puccinia arachidis
Mustard
a) Blight: Alternaria brassica
b) Downy mildew: Perenospora brassicae
c) White rust: Albugo candida
Sunflower:
a) Leaf spot: Alternaria helianthi
b) Rust: Puccinia helianthin
c) Head rot: Rhizopus sp.
Potato
a) Late blight: Phytophthora infestens
b) Early blight: Alternaria solani
c) Brown rot: Pseudomonas solanacearum
d) Wart: Synchytrium sp.