Vol. 11, Special Issue 2 (2022)

Author(s):
KK Saini, AC Mathur, RS Sharma, Virendra Kumar, RK Bagri, Yogesh Kumar Sharma and KC Gupta

Abstract:
A study on disease, downy mildew of pearl millet was conducted at Rajasthan Agricultural Research Institute, Durgapura, Jaipur in which for study of effect of age of inoculum on disease incidence, one year to eight years old culture of Sclerospora graminicola was obtained from pearl millet downy mildew nursery, Rajasthan Agricultural Research Institute, Durgapura, Jaipur. It was observed from that one year old inoculum gave more disease incidence (98.66%) and the lowest seedling emergence (23.33%) than fresher one (95.33) and more than one year old inoculum.