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Prevalence of sorghum ergot in southeast Asia

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Title Prevalence of sorghum ergot in southeast Asia
 
Creator Tonapi, V A
Wirojwattanakul, K
Vinh, D V
Thein, M M
Navi, S S
Tooley, P W
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Ergot is a serious endemic disease in most of the sorghum
(Sorghum bicolor) producing countries of the wor ld, wi th
most recent outbreaks being in central and South
Amer ica (Reis et al . 1996). It is caused by the fungus
Claviceps spp. Three species are predominant : C. africana
is prevalent in southern and eastern Af r ica, South
Amer ica, Southeast Asia, Aust ral ia, and India; C. sorghi
in India and Southeast Asia; and C. sorghicola in Japan.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2003
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1449/1/ISMN44_95-97_2003.pdf
Tonapi, V A and Wirojwattanakul, K and Vinh, D V and Thein, M M and Navi, S S and Tooley, P W (2003) Prevalence of sorghum ergot in southeast Asia. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter, 44. pp. 95-97.