Identification symptoms
Charcoal rot is one of the important problem in maize cultivation. The disease can be identified by following symptoms.
* Symptoms appears during crop maturity.
* Outside of the lower inter node become straw colored and pith disintegrates.
* Longitudinal split of pith and convert into mass of fibres.
* Presence of small black coloured sclerotia in pith.
* Roots also gets disintegrates.