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    Expt. No.: 03 Page No.

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    CLASSIFICATION Date:

    KINGDOM: FUNGI Objective: To study about the blast of finger millet or ragi.
    DIVISION: EUMYCOTA
    SUBDIVISION: ASCOMYCOTINA
    CLASS: SORDARIOMYCETES
    Causal organism:
    ORDER: MAGNAPORTHALES
    FAMILY: MAGNAPORTHACEAE Pyricularia grisea (Perfect stage: Magnaporthe grisea)

    Symptoms:
    i. Leaf blast: It is more severe in tillering phase. The disease is characterized by spindle
    shaped spots on the leaves with gray centres surrounded by reddish brown margins.

    ii. Node blast: Infection on stem causes blackening of the nodal region and the nodes
    break at the point of infection. All the parts above the infected node die.
    Neck blast Leaf blast
    iii. Neck blast: At flowering stage, the neck just below the ear head is affected and turns
    sooty black in colour and usually breaks at this point. In early neck infections, the entire
    ear head becomes chaffy and there is no grain set at all. If grain setting occurs, they are
    shrivelled and reduced in size.

    Microscopic characteristics:

    i. The mycelium is septate, branched and hyaline.

    ii. The conidiophores are simple, gray in colour.


    iii. The conidia are pyriform, usually 2-septate (3-celled).
    iv. Sexual fruiting body is perithecia and absent in pyricularia life cycle.

    FIG: BLAST OF FINGER MILLET


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    (Pyricularia grisea)
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