Smut Whip
Symptoms
- Infected stools forms black soot
- Whip like stalks
- Grass like leaves
Management
- Growing of resistant and moderately resistant varieties for example D8484, KEN 83-737.
- Use of seed cane from a certified Nursery
- Sett treatment with fungicides (e.g Carbendazim)
- Roguing and burning or burying of smut whips before they open
- Discourage ratooning of fields with high incidences of smut
- Crop rotation