PEST / BACTERIAL / FUNGAL IDENTIFICATION IN CROP SYMPTOMS SUGGESTED PRODUCT Red Rot The spindle leaves (3rd & 14th)) display drying. At a later stage, stalks become discolored and hollow. Indofa + Bacillus Wilt Internally light to dark purplish or brown discoloration of ground tissue, pithiness, and boat-shaped cavities in the middle of the internodes Indofa + Bacillus + Lifeline Smut Production of the whip-like structure of 25 – 150 cm. from the growing point of the canes. Indofa + Bacillus Rust The earliest symptoms of common rust on the leaves are small, elongated yellowish spots that are visible on both surfaces. Indofa + Bacillus Shoot Borer Dead heart in a 1-3-month-old crop, which can be easily pulled out, a rotten portion of the straw-colored dead – heart emits an offensive odor. Meta + Traps + BT Internode Borer Internodes constricted and shortened with a number of boreholes and frass in the nodal region Meta + Traps + BT Top Shoot Borer A dead heart arises after the sixth month grown up canes, which cannot be easily pulled. A parallel row of shot holes in the emerging leaves Meta + Traps + BT Termites The entire shoot dries up and can be pulled out easily. Setts hollow inside and may be filled with soil Traps + Metarhizium White wooly Aphid Adults and nymphs suck sap from leaves by piercing styles through stomata. Whitish patches – coalesce and turn yellowish then drying starts from the tip along the margins. Lifeline + Traps +Meta + BT Mealybug Pinkish oval insects beneath leaf sheath on the nodes, with whitish mealy coating, main cane stunned also attack roots. BT + Traps + Lifeline Nematode Stunting of the crop, reduction in number and size of internodes. Roots are stubby and spare. The affected field shows pale green to whitish look. Meta + BT + Pacliq