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Agriculture · Q690

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 690

Q690

The causal organism of bunt of rice is

A.
Urocystis tritici
B.
Tilletia foetida
C.
Neovossia horrida
Answer
D.
None of these

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The causal organism of the bunt of rice is Neovossia horrida.
T. horrida has had a chaotic taxonomic history. It has been reclassified within Neovossia.
Tilletia horrida, rice kernel smut, caryopsis smut, black smut, or grain smut, is a fungal rice disease believed to only affect the Oryza genus. It presents as a bunt disease in rice.