Sheath blight: Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn.(Deuteromycotina: Mycelia Sterilia)

Local name: Yele Kavachada Macchhe Roga

False Smut: Ustilaginoidea virens (Cke.) Takahashi

(Deuteromycotina: Moniliales: Dematiauae)

Local name: Kadige Roga

Management of Udbatta disease in Rice

Udbatta disease: Ephelis oryzae Syd.

(Deuteromycotina: Sphaeropsidales: Excipulaceae)

Bacterial leaf blight: Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Ishiyama)   Swing et. al.

(Pseudomonadales: Pseudomonadaceae)

Management of brown leaf spot of Rice

Brown leaf spot: Helminthosporium oryzae (Breda de Haan)(Deuteromycotina: Moniliales : Dematiaceae )

Rice blast: Magnaporthe grisea (Hebert) Barr (Deuteromycotina: Moniliales: Moniliaceae)

Kannada Name: Benki Roga

Stem rot:

Causal organism: Helminthosporium sigmoideum var. irregular (Leptospheria salvinic or Magnaportha salvinii)

Brown leaf spot:

Causal organism: Helminthosporium oryzae (Cochliobolus miyabeanus)

False smut

Causal organism: Ustilaginoides virens

Sheath blight:

Causal organism: Rhizoctonia sohani (Thanatephorus cucumeris)