Screening of sugarcane germplasm against Sporisorium scitamineum and its effects on setts germination and tillering.

ABSTRACT: Sugarcane smut is the most damaging disease that is present almost across the globe, causing mild to severe yield losses depending upon the cultivar types, pathogen races and climatic conditions. Cultivation of smut-resistant cultivars is the most feasible and economical option to mitigate its damages. Previous investigations revealed that there is a scarcity of information on early detection and effective strategies to suppress etiological agents of smut disease due to the characteristics overlapping within species complexes. In this study, 104 sugarcane cultivars were screened by artificial inoculation with homogenate of all possible pathogen races of Sporisorium scitamineum during two consecutive growing seasons. The logistic smut growth pattern and the disease intrinsic rate were recor

SUBMITTER: Rajput MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11199591 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature