Survey for the chickpea phyllody incidence in northern Karnataka

Abstract

Among many diseases affecting chickpea, phyllody was considered as minor disease but in recent years incidenceof the disease is gradually increasing in northern Karnataka. It has peculiar symptoms like reduction in the leaf size,stunting of plant, reduction in internodal length, floral malformation (phyllody), reduced pod size and the shriveled seeds.A roving survey was carried out to know the incidence of the chickpea phyllody in the northern parts of Karnataka viz.,Bagalkot, Belagavi, Dharwad, Kalaburgi, Gadag, Vijayapura, districts during rabi, 2019. The district wise disease incidencewas in the range of 2.41 - 5.35 per cent and the highest incidence was recorded in Vijayapura (5.35 %) followed byKalaburgi (5.07 %), Dharwad (4.16 %), Belagavi (3.27 %), Bagalkot (3.15 %) and lowest incidence was recorded in Gadag(2.41 %)