Screening for identification 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, fourteen barnyard millet varieties including check were evaluated for resistance to banded blight at Agricultural Research Station, Vizianagaram during kharif, 2018. The experiment was conducted under field condition. The screening revealed that none of the test lines or varieties was immune or highly resistant. However, DHBM 33(53.8%) and VL 254 (61.7%) were recorded as susceptible, it was 98.0% in susceptible check. The disease intensity was ranged from 53.8 (DHBM 33) to 97.5 (TNEf 204), where it was 11.4% in resistant check (PRB 903) and it was 98.0 in susceptible check (LDR-1).