@phdthesis{icrisat4300,
          school = {Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University},
            year = {2011},
           title = {Epidemiology, Virulence Diversity and Host-Plant Resistance in Blast [Magnaporthe grisea (Hebert) Barr.] of Finger Millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.]},
          author = {T Kiran Babu},
            note = {It gives me immense pleasure to express my gratitude to Dr. P. Narayan Reddy, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad and Chairman of the Advisory Committee for his valuable guidance, inextinguishable encouragement, unflagging help and constructive criticism during the course of investigation. I deem it privilege to extrol my profound and sincere feelings of gratitude to Dr. R. P. Thakur, Principal Scientist (Pathology) \& Head and Co-Chairman of the Advisory Committee, Cereals Pathology \& Plant Quarantine Laboratory (PQL), ICRISAT, Patancheru, India for
insightful guidance, constant encouragement, constructive criticism in planning and presentation of the investigation, moral support during my most of the trying times and unflagging help in bringing out the best of my ability, in this dissertation. I am lucky to work with him.
I am highly thank full to Dr. H. D. Upadhyaya, Assistant Research Program Director-Grain Legumes and Principal Scientist and Head, Genebank, ICRISAT, Patancheru and
member of my advisory committee for his keen interest, help and co-operation during the course of my investigation. I express my sincere thanks to member of my advisory committee Mr. N. D. R. K. Sarma, Senior Scientist (Plant breeding) \& Head, ARS, Vizianagaram for his kind cooperation, valuable advices during my research work...},
             url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/4300/},
        abstract = {Studies were conducted on blast disease of finger millet that included cultural,
morphological, pathological and molecular diversity, epidemiology and identification of
host-plant resistance at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
(ICRISAT), Patancheru, India and field trials were conducted at ICRISAT; ARS,
Vizianagaram; RARS, Nandyal; ZARS, Mandya and OFRS, Naganahalli. A total of 125
blast disease specimens from finger millet, 6 from foxtail millet, 3 from rice and 5 from
pearl millet were collected from major crop growing areas of India during 2008-2010. From
these samples, a total of 70 monoconidial isolates of Magnaporthe grisea, 56 from finger
millet, 6 from foxtail millet, 3 from rice and 5 from pearl millet were obtained. Of the 70
isolates, 15 each were from Patancheru and Vizianagaram, 13 from Nandyal, 14 from
Mandya, 8 from Naganahalli and one each from Dholi, Aurangabad, Hissar, Jaipur and
Solan....}
}