Survey of magnaporthe grisea isolates around Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States, India

The pathogen is adaptable to adverse environmental conditions of widely fluctuating temperatures and relative humidity. It appears in irrigated low land or rain fed upland rice as well as in submerged or deep water rice. Rice was important crop in both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states and losses due disease was also more. Keeping this in view we are conducting survey in both the states to identify the severity of disease.