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Blast Disease: Historical Importance, Distribution, and Host Infectivity Across Cereal Crops

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Blast Disease of Cereal Crops

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Globally, blast disease is an economically important disease, affecting production and productivity of many cereal hosts (rice, finger millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet, and more recently wheat crop) and causing huge yield losses. The disease has continued to be a major threat in many major rice-growing areas limiting the yield potential of cultivars. The causal organism, Magnaporthe sp., is omnipresent in both temperate and tropical regions with varied host range. So, understanding the mechanisms of host specificity and host range will definitely improvise the designing and impact of disease management practices. It will also help in knowing the effect of other hosts in rapid spread and development of blast disease epidemics. Distribution pattern of blast disease endemic areas in India is known; however the information on the infectivity of blast pathogen on important cereal hosts is inadequate. This chapter emphasizes on the occurrence of Magnaporthe sp. on different cereal crops, their symptomatology on various plant parts, distribution, historical perspective, isolation methodologies, wide host range, and infectivity of disease among the cereal crops.

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Hosahatti, R., Jeevan, B., Mishra, K.K., Subbanna, A.R.N.S., Kant, L. (2021). Blast Disease: Historical Importance, Distribution, and Host Infectivity Across Cereal Crops. In: Nayaka, S.C., Hosahatti, R., Prakash, G., Satyavathi, C.T., Sharma, R. (eds) Blast Disease of Cereal Crops. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60585-8_1

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