Claim · model-written summary
Blast can cause total crop loss of finger millet in extreme cases.
- Taxon
- Finger millet
Eleusine coracanae0 - Outcome
- total crop losse1
- Qualifier
- in extreme casese1
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Verbatim
e0“Finger millet, the third most important millet”
e1“in extreme cases, it can result in total crop loss”
Title
K Nitin; K; S Vijay; et al. Plant Science Today 2026. doi:10.14719/pst.11267
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Blast disease is estimated to reduce finger millet yield by 28% to 36% on average.
- Association The loss from blast is higher in neck blast and finger blast than in leaf blast.
- Association Neck blast and finger blast drastically decrease grain size and number of finger millet.
- Observation In extreme cases, blast results in total panicle sterility of finger millet.