Plant pathogenic fungi attacking wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grown at medium altitude of East Lombok, Indonesia

Abstract

The research aimed to investigate plant pathogenic fungi attacking wheat grown at medium altitude of East Lombok and the disease incidence they caused had been conducted from Mei to October 2018 in Perian Village (8°34’31” S, 116°23’35” E with the altitude of 490 meter above sea level), Montong Gading Sub-district, East Lombok, Indonesia. The research applied a descriptive explorative method by observing the disease incidence caused by fungal pathogens in 36 field plots with the size of 1x3 m each. The symptoms and the disease incidence were observed weekly. The plant pathogenic fungi were then identified at the Microbiology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture the University of Mataram. The result showed that plant pathogenic fungi attacking wheat grown at medium altitude were Fusarium sp. (the causal agent of head blight/scab), Bipolaris sorokiniana (the causal agent of leaf blight), Fusarium sp. (the causal agent of shoot rot), and Helminthosporium sp. (the causal agent of head blight), with the disease incidence of 48.87%, 40.89%, 0.36% and 0.23% respectively.The research aimed to investigate plant pathogenic fungi attacking wheat grown at medium altitude of East Lombok and the disease incidence they caused had been conducted from Mei to October 2018 in Perian Village (8°34’31” S, 116°23’35” E with the altitude of 490 meter above sea level), Montong Gading Sub-district, East Lombok, Indonesia. The research applied a descriptive explorative method by observing the disease incidence caused by fungal pathogens in 36 field plots with the size of 1x3 m each. The symptoms and the disease incidence were observed weekly. The plant pathogenic fungi were then identified at the Microbiology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture the University of Mataram. The result showed that plant pathogenic fungi attacking wheat grown at medium altitude were Fusarium sp. (the causal agent of head blight/scab), Bipolaris sorokiniana (the causal agent of leaf blight), Fusarium sp. (the causal agent of shoot rot), and Helminthosporium sp. (the causal agent of head blight), with the disease ...