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Sorghum Diseases in India

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Table 1. <strong>Diseases</strong> of sorghum <strong>in</strong> western Africa. 1<br />

Disease Causal agent Disease Causal agent<br />

Fungal foliar<br />

Gray leaf spot<br />

Leaf anthracnose<br />

Cercospora sorghi<br />

Colletotrichum gram<strong>in</strong>icola<br />

Long smut<br />

Loose smut<br />

Tolyposporium ehrenbergii<br />

Sphacelotheca cruenta<br />

Leaf blight Exserohilum turcicum Root and stalk<br />

Leaf spot Phoma <strong>in</strong>sidiosa Acremomium wilt Acremonium strictum<br />

Phyllosticta sorghiphila<br />

Charcoal rot Macrophom<strong>in</strong>a phaseol<strong>in</strong>a<br />

Oval leaf spot Ramulispora sorghicola Fusarium stalk rot Fusarium moniliforme<br />

Rough leaf spot Ascochyta sorgh<strong>in</strong>a<br />

Milo disease Periconia circ<strong>in</strong>ata<br />

Rust<br />

Pucc<strong>in</strong>ia purpurea<br />

• Pokkah boeng Fusarium subglut<strong>in</strong>ans<br />

Sooty stripe Ramulispora sorghi<br />

Root rot<br />

Fusarium spp<br />

Zonate leaf spot Gloeocercospora sorghi<br />

Macrophom<strong>in</strong>a phaseol<strong>in</strong>a,<br />

Leaf sheath<br />

Sheath blight Rhizoctonia solani<br />

Stem anthracnose<br />

Rhizoctonia sorghi,<br />

Phoma sorgh<strong>in</strong>a<br />

Colletotrichum gram<strong>in</strong>icola<br />

Panicle<br />

Ergot<br />

Covered smut<br />

False smut<br />

Gra<strong>in</strong> mold<br />

Sphacelia sorghi<br />

Sporisorium sorghi<br />

Cerebella sorghi-vulgaris<br />

Phoma sorghitta<br />

Seedl<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Downy mildew<br />

Fusarium moniliforme<br />

Phoma sorgh<strong>in</strong>a<br />

Peronosclerospora sorghi<br />

Curvularia lunata Bacterial 2<br />

Colletotrichum gram<strong>in</strong>icola Bacterial leaf Pseudomonas syr<strong>in</strong>gae<br />

Fusarium culmorum<br />

spot<br />

F. moniliforme Bacterial leaf Xanthomonas holcicola<br />

F. oxysporum<br />

streak<br />

F. semitectum<br />

Bacterial leaf Pseudomonas andropogoni<br />

Helm<strong>in</strong>thosporium halodes stripe<br />

Aspergillus niger<br />

Bacterial soft rot Erw<strong>in</strong>ia sp<br />

Chaetomium sp<br />

Red stripe and Xanthomonas rubril<strong>in</strong>eans<br />

Penicillium funiculosum<br />

top rot<br />

Cladosporium spp<br />

Yellow leaf blotch Pseudomonas sp<br />

Rhizopus stolonifer<br />

Aspergillus flavus<br />

Nigrospora sphaerica<br />

Viral<br />

Mosaic<br />

Sugarcane mosaic virus<br />

Head blight<br />

Alternaria alternata<br />

Sclerotium rolfsii<br />

Fusarium moniliforme<br />

Parasitic plant<br />

Striga<br />

Striga hermonthica<br />

Head smut Sporisorium reilianum<br />

1. Source: Zummo (1984).<br />

2. Leaf-<strong>in</strong>fect<strong>in</strong>g agents, except Erw<strong>in</strong>ia spp, a root-<strong>in</strong>fector, and top rot (X. rubril<strong>in</strong>eans) a disease of the stalk.<br />

The occurrence rather than importance of<br />

sorghum diseases <strong>in</strong> western Africa is emphasized.<br />

Prevalence is used <strong>in</strong> relative terms to<br />

mean a higher <strong>in</strong>cidence of a disease. Based on<br />

observations from six countries (Burk<strong>in</strong>a Faso,<br />

Cameroon, Cdte d'lvoire, Ghana, Mali, and<br />

Niger), some features of the more prevalent diseases<br />

<strong>in</strong> local and <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>troduced genotypes are<br />

presented. A summary of research efforts for the<br />

past 3 years will conclude this review-<br />

<strong>Diseases</strong> Prevalent <strong>in</strong> Local<br />

<strong>Sorghum</strong>s<br />

Leaf diseases<br />

Gray leaf spot and leaf anthracnose are the more<br />

common leaf diseases <strong>in</strong> farmers' fields, and are<br />

more serious <strong>in</strong> the northern Gu<strong>in</strong>ean Zone.<br />

Most often gray leaf spot is severe <strong>in</strong> the top four

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