Yellow Ear rot or Bacterial Rot

Causal Organism: Corynebacterium tritici

Chief symptoms: Yellow exudate on the spikes is indicative of bacterial diseases .When dry, the exudates is white to yellow white .often the spikes and necks will emerge as a distorted sticky The early leaves may also be wrinkled or twisted

Control measures:

• Use of seeds free from nematode galls or certified seeds.
• Nematode galls can be removed by sieving or floatation in 5% common salt solution followed by washing thoroughly in plain water and drying the seed before sowing.
• Temik 10G@20kg/hac or Aldicarb sulphon@2kg ai or Carbofuron @1.5kg ai/ hac at the time of planting or before planting needs to applied in severely infested fields.