Causal Organism: Urocystis tritici

Chief symptoms:  Symptoms appear on all parts of the shoots but leaf and leaf sheaths are commonly affected. Black powdery stripes appear on twisted and drooping leaves. Culms remain sterile frequently bearing no grains.

Control measures:

• Avoid seed from infected area
• Follow 3 yrs crop rotation in disease sick plots.
• Treat the seed with Vitavax or Bavistin @2.5gm/kg seed
• Rouging and burning of infected plants.