Evaluation of resistant sources of barnyard millet varieties against sheath blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn

Barnyard millet is the second important small millet after finger millet in India. In this present study, 14 barnyard millet varieties including check were evaluated for resistance to banded blight at Agricultural Research Station, Vizianagaram during kharif, 2019. The experiment was conducted under field condition. The screening revealed that none of the test lines or varieties was immune or highly resistant. However, LBT 1 (22.3%) and LRB 2 (25.3%) were recorded as moderately resistant; it was 97.1% in susceptible check. The disease intensity was ranged from 22.3% (LBT 1) to 85.0% (LRB 15), where it was 21.7% in resistant check (PRB 903) and it was 97.1% in susceptible check (LDR-1).