Legumes Pathology (Pigeonpea):Report of Work (June 1990- May 1991)

This document reports the research work carried out on pigeonpea at ICRISAT and its cooperating centers during 1990-91. Topics covered include: 1) Disease situation in pigeonpea in India; 2) Evaluation of breeding materials, new germplasm, All IndiaCoordinated Trial entries, and lines from National programs for resistance to phytophthora blight, sterility mosaic, macrofomina stem canker, root rot and wilt; 3) Pathogenic variability in and infection and colonization of Fusarium udum; 4) Pathogenic variability in SM pathogen/mite vector; 5)Evaluation of Ridomil MZ for Phytophthora blight control; 6) Effect of rotations on pigeonpea wilt incidenc