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HANDLING MOISTURE STRESS IN RAINFED CROPS Moisture shortage is the major issue for rain fed crops like groundnut, Sunflower, Cotton, Rain fed Chilli, Pulse crops such as red gram, Soybean, Green gram...etc., in arid and semi arid regions. In rain fed areas the moisture stress is most important factor affecting the crop growth, development and yields. Moisture in turn the water has got vital role in the plant growth and development. Water constitutes 80- 85 % of plant body weight, supplies important nutrients like Hydrogen and oxygen. Water deficit hinders the plant growth and development. Transpiration process maintains the moisture...

PLANT NUTRIENTS AND VIRAL INFECTIONS IN PLANTS Plant requires more than 15 essential nutrients to complete its life cycle with healthy sturdy growth with minimum disease and pest attacks. Categorised in to three classifications like Major, Secondary and micronutrients all the nutrients are compulsorily required.           Nitrogen is one of the major nutrients required for the growth and development of plants. It is required for the vegetative and reproductive growth phases. It has an important role in increase of size of the plant and plant parts and very importantly the maintenance of female to male flowers ratio in majority of...

Late blight Disease of Solanaceous crops Solanaceous crops include tomato, pepper, eggplant (Brinjal), white and red potatoes. Late blight disease is severe disease for this family.  This disease is caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans. The symptoms are irregular shaped water-soaked lesions are found on young leaves at the top part of the plant. Lesions become brown and pathogen sporulation can be seen under humid cold conditions. The leaves shrivel, become necrotic and die eventually shrivel.  Lesions can occur on stems and leaf pedicels which will be brown. The fungus can also infect potato tuber, tomato fruit causing circular greasy lesions. ...

FALL ARMY WORM IN MAIZE- A SERIOUS PEST Fall Armyworm    (Spodoptera frugiperda) causing crop damage to larger extent in maize in India. Recently it is reported in some districts of Karnataka. It is native of America and in 2016 it was serious pest in South African Countries on maize crop. Previous year this cut worm also affected the finger millet crop in some districts of Karnataka. Infestations usually first develop in fields of small grains or in other grass cover crops. In conventional tillage systems, partially- grown larvae can migrate into corn fields from grassy waterways, damage is usually first...

PINK BOLL WORM - SERIOUS INSECT PEST OF COTTON CROP "King of fibres" or "White gold” the natural fibre is produced by the cotton plant. Since cotton plant is grown on soil it is also vulnerable to as many 1300 species of insects. Among them bollworms are major insect pests and among bollworms, pink bollworm has become a notorious pest. In cotton crop the pink bollworm infestation is reported to loss more than 50% for crop. Pink bollworm is distributed all over the country. It is distributed in W. Bengal, Assam, Orissa, Bihar, U.P, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra,...