Author(s): Manish Kumar Maurya, Shivam Singh, Vindeshwari Prasad, Kritanjay Kumar Maurya, Jaishraj Yadav, Prabha Siddharth, Shyam Narayan Patel, Shubham Patel and Vikash Kumar Yadav

Abstract: Rice false smut caused by Ustilaginoidea virens (Cke.) Tak. is a devastating disease all around the world including India. In India, this diseases causes an economic yield losses i.e., 0.5 to 49 per cent depending on the host variety. Among various inoculation methods adopted at different stages employing on Damini rice variety which showed that spraying of conidial suspension (2×10⁵ spores ml^-1) of U. virens at booting and late booting stage was ideal for infection with maximum infected tillers (41.54% and 37.82%) and smut balls (7.45 and 6.78) respectively.

DOI: 10.33545/26174693.2024.v8.i3h.814