Pearl Millet Diseases

Table 5. Fungi reported to cause pre-emergence or postemergence damping off and seedling blight of pearl millet

Seed source	Fungal isolate	Disease symptoms	Reference
India	Chaetomium globosum	Reduced germination	Mathur et al. 1973
	Curvularia penniseti	Reduced germination, seedling blight
	Drechslera maydis	Reduced germination
	Drechslera rostrata (=Exserohilum rostratum)	Reduced germination
	Drechslera tetramera	Reduced germination
	Fusarium equiseti	Reduced germination
	Fusarium fusarioides	Reduced germination
India (?)	Alternaria alternata	Leaf spots, marginal necrosis	Konde et al. 1980
	Aspergillus terreus	Root and stem lesions
	Curvularia lunata	Leaf lesions
	Drechslera australiensis	Seedling blight, leaf spots
	Fusarium moniliforme	Reduced germination, seedling blight
	Fusarium solani	Reduced germination, seedling blight
	Rhizoctonia bataticola	Foliar lesions
India	Drechslera setariae (=Bipolaris setariae)	Reduced germination, seedling blight	Shetty et al. 1982
Nigeria	Fusarium moniliforme	Reduced germination	Onesirosan 1975
USA	Fusarium moniliforme	Reduced emergence	Wells and Winstead 1965
	Helminthosporium rostratum	Reduced emergence
	Helminthosporium setariae	Reduced emergence
USA	Phyllosticta penicillariae	Seedling blight	Wilson and Burton 1990

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Agricultural Research Service

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Original posting: June 5, 1999.