List of plant diseases and their causal organism

List of plant diseases and their causal organism

Major types of plants and their diseases with causal organism are given below.

List of Rice diseases and their causal organism:

Name of the diseasesCausal organism
Bacterial leaf blight (BLB)Xanthomonas oryzae
Bacterial leaf streak (BLS)Xanthomonas oryzae oryzicola
Sheath blightRhizoctonia solani
Sheath rotSarocladium oryzae
Stem rotSclerotium oryzae
Foot rot/BakaneFusarium moniliforme
BlastPyricularia oryzae
Brown spotBipolaris oryzae
UfraDitylenchus angustus
TungroRice tungro virus

List of Wheat diseases and their causal organism:

Black point/ leaf blightBipolaris sorokiniana
Bacterial leaf blightPseudomonas syringae
Loose smutUstilago tritici
Stem rustPuccinia graminis tritici
Seed gallAnguina tritici

List of Jute diseases and their causal organism:

Stem rotMacrophomina phaseolin
Black bandBotryodiplodia theobroma
AnthracnoseColletrotrichum corchrori

List of Sugarcane diseases and their causal organism:

Red rotColletrotrichum falcatum
GummosisXanthomonas vasculorum

List of Pulses diseases and their causal organism:

Foot and root rotFusrium oxysporum, Rhizoctonia solani
Cercospora leaf spotCercospora canescens
WiltFusarium oxysporum
Powdery mildewOidium sp. Erysiphae polygo
RustUromyces fabae

List of Peanut diseases and their causal organism:

TikkaCercospora arachidicol

List of Bean diseases and their causal organism:

Rust of beanUromyces phaseoli

List of Soybean diseases and their causal organism:

AnthracnoseColletotrichum dematium

List of Cotton diseases and their causal organism:

Black armXanthomonas malvacearum
AnthracnoseColletrotichum gossypii

List of Potato diseases and their causal organism:

Late blightPhytophthora infestans
ScabStreptomyces scabies
Soft rot/ Black legErwinia carotovora
Dry rotFusarium caeruleum
Black heart/Hollow   heartPhysiogenic/ Nutritional

List of Brinjal diseases and their causal organism:

Fruit rotPhomopsis vexans
Root knotMeloidogyne javanica

List of Mustard diseases and their causal organism:

Grey leaf spotAlternaria brassicae, A. brassicicola

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