Question

A disease of wheat that has become increasingly significant in the warmer, more humid wheat-growing tracts of eastern India and the Eastern Gangetic Plains, produces dark brown, oval to irregular lesions on the leaves and is caused by which fungal pathogen?

Q: Answer-A disease of wheat that has become increasingly significant in the warmer, more humid wheat-growing...

Explanation Spot blotch, or foliar blight, of wheat is caused by the fungus Bipolaris sorokiniana, and has become an increasingly significant disease in the warmer, more humid wheat-growing tracts of eastern India and the Eastern Gangetic Plains, where rising temperatures during the wheat growing season favour its development, producing characteristic dark brown, oval to irregular leaf lesions.