Survey and screening of sorghum germplasms against anthracnose disease

Sorghum is the fifth most important world cereal crop after wheat, rice, maize and barley. Anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) Wilson is one of the most destructive foliar diseases. Considering this, the present investigation was carried out through survey of anthracnose disease of sorghum to measure intensity and distribution of in three talukas of Banaskantha district viz., Dantiwada, Deesa and Palanpur and screened the germplasms in the field conditions against anthracnose disease during kharif, 2017. The survey revealed that anthracnose disease was more severe in Dantiwada taluka (56.29 %) than Deesa (52.96 %) and Palanpur (47.78 %) talukas. Fifty sorghum germplasms were screened under field conditions against anthracnose disease of sorghum. Among them, twenty one germplasms were found susceptible, 6 germplasms were found highly susceptible, 16 germplasms were moderately resistant and seven germplasms showed resistant reaction [FM-303, 1013-4 (C-43 × UPMC-512), EJN-26, EJN-203, ER-23, ER-25 and CSV-17 × SPV-2133].