Research Progress Analysis of Sclerotinia rot (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) of oilseed Brassicas through Bibliography

Abstract

Sclerotinia rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary is a major disease of oilseed Brassica in the world. Sclerotinia is a ubiquitous, omnivorous, soil-borne phytopathogenic ascomycetes fungus capable of infecting more than 500 plant species of diverse phylogenetic backgrounds including 278 genera in 75 families of dicotyledonous and a significant number of monocotyledonous plants (Purdy, 1979; Willetts and Wong 1980; Steadman, 1983; Boland and Hall, 1994; Saharan and Mehta, 2008, Sharma, 2014). Yield losses vary with the percentage of plants infected, and the growth stage of the crop at the time of infection. Plants infected at the early flowering stage produce little or no seeds, where as those infected at the late flowering stage although will set seeds but suffer little vield TH e W x P