WHEAT :: MAJOR DISEASES :: FOOT ROT

Foot rot - Pythium graminicolumand P. arrhenomanes
Symptoms
The disease mainly occurs in seedlings and roots and rootlets become brown in colour. Seedlings become pale green and have stunted growth. Fungus produces sporangia and zoospores and oospores.

Favourable Conditions
Wet weather and high rainfall.
Disease cycle
Through soil and irrigation water.
Management

• Follow crop rotation.
• Treat the seeds with Carboxin or Carbendazim at 2g/kg.