Management of wheat head blast diseases

  • Use disease-free certified seed.
  • Remove and destroy the disease infected wheat plants to check the spread of disease.
  • Treat the seeds with carboxin 37.5 +thiram 37.5% @ 2.5 gm / kg seed.
  • Weekly Spray Kasugamycin 5% + Copper Oxychloride 45% WP 320 gm/acre or
  • SprayThiophanate methyl 70% Wp 300 ml/acre.
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Identification of wheat head blast diseases

  • Affected plants show typical eye-shaped lesions with light gray centers and dark brown spots on wheat leaves.
  • The blast affected wheat spikes, with typical bleached head symptoms from the point of infection.
  • complete bleaching of a wheat spike above the point of infection by blast fungus.
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