Bacterial soft rot and top rot of sorghum caused by Bacillus subtilis in Gulbarga
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A.H. RAJASAB, S.K. ANJANA DEVI and K. ASHOK KUMAR
Plant Pathology Laboratory, P.G. Department of Botany, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga 585 106
Keywords:
Bacillus subtilis, bacterial soft rots, Sorghum bicolorAbstract
The causal agent of a leaf blotch affecting sorghum in Gulbarga, Karnataka, India, was identified as Bacillus subtilis. B. subtilis was reisolated from symptomatic plants that had been inoculated with a suspension of the pathogen. The symptoms included blotching of the leaf sheath, reddening of the lamina, inflorescence rotting in the boot of the flag leaf and rooting at the upper 1-3 internodes.
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