PLANT PATHOGENS

Question 1

Pyricularia grisea (Cooke) Sacc.

Answer 1

Blast

Question 2

Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn

Answer 2

Sheath blight

Question 3

Sheath blight and Blast attack which crop?

Answer 3

rice

Question 4

Sheath blight and Blast in rice are what type of pathogen?

Answer 4

Fungi

Question 5

Ustilaginoidea virens

Answer 5

False smut

Question 6

false smut is a type of what pathogen?

Answer 6

Fungi

Question 7

False smut is a disease of what crop?

Answer 7

rice

Question 8

Helminthosporium oryzae

Answer 8

Brown spot

Question 9

Helminthosporium oryzae-brown spot is a type of what pathogen?

Answer 9

Fungi

Question 10

Brown spot is a disease of what crop?

Answer 10

Rice

Question 11

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae

Answer 11

Bacterial leaf blight

Question 12

Bacterial leaf blight is a disease of what crop?

Answer 12

rice

Question 13

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola

Answer 13

Bacterial leaf streak

Question 14

Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV) and Rice tungro
spherical virus (RTSV)

Answer 14

Tungro disease

Question 15

Rice grassy stunt tenuivirus

Answer 15

Grassy stunt disease

Question 16

Grassy stunt disease is a type of what pathogen?

Answer 16

Virus

Question 17

Grassy stunt disease attacks what crop?

Answer 17

Rice

Question 18

Rice ragged stunt virus

Answer 18

Ragged stunt disease

Question 19

Aphelenchoides besseyi

Answer 19

White tip disease of rice

Question 20

White tip disease of rice is a type of what pathogen?

Answer 20

Nematode

Question 21

Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum

Answer 21

Bacterial leaf streak

Question 22

Dickeya chrysanthemi pv. zeae

Answer 22

Bacterial stalk rot

Question 23

Puccinia polysora

Answer 23

Rust

Question 24

Puccinia polysora - Rust is a type of what pathogen?

Answer 24

Fungi

Question 25

Aspergillus flavus

Answer 25

Ear rot

Question 26

Ear rot is a type of what pathogen?

Answer 26

Fungi

Question 27

Physoderma maydis

Answer 27

Brown spot

Question 28

Fusarium sp. Pythium sp.

Answer 28

Seedling blight/seed rot

Question 29

Exserohilum turcicum

Answer 29

Northern leaf blight

Question 30

Northern leaf blight is a type of what pathogen and a disease of what crop?

Answer 30

Fungi, coconut

Question 31

Cercospora musae Zimm.

Answer 31

Sigatoka

Question 32

Colletotrichum musae v. Arx

Answer 32

Anthracnose

Question 33

Anthracnose is a type of what disease?

Answer 33

Fungi

Question 34

Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV)

Answer 34

Bunchy top

Question 35

Colletotrichum gloeosporoides Penz

Answer 35

Anthracnose of Mango