Influence of head blast infection on seed germination and yield components of finger millet (Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn)

Abstract

Head blast caused a significant reduction in grain yield, a result of reduction in spikelet length, grain weight and number of grains per head. The correlations between field infection and yield, and between field infection and percentage seed germination, were both statistically non‐significant.

Keywords:

• Head blast
• Pyricularia grisea
• finger millet