Integrated Management of Sterility Mosaic Disease (SMD) of Red Gram and Virus - Vector Relationship in the Context of Weather Parameters

The treatments were found to be more effective in comparison to untreated control. However, the Seed treatment imidacloprid 70 % WS @ 5 g/kg seed+ spraying of fenazaquin 5 EC @ 0.1% provided the maximum control (PDI 10.00) of the sterility mosaic disease and the vector population was decreased to 3 when compared to control (PDI 50.00). The SMD, incidence of redgram was positively correlated with maximum temperature and negatively correlated with Relative humidity and rainfall. The maximum temperature 24 % and Maximum RH 22 % is positively related to SMD incidence.