The disease is seen both in nursery and in main field.
water - soaked and yellowish stripes are seen on leaf blades at leaf tips with wavy margins.
Drying of leaf blades back from leaf tips, leaving midrib as green and intact.
Appearance of bacterial ooze that looks like a opaque dewdrops and floating in the infected field during morning times.
Improved Samba Mahsuri (RP Bio 226), Ajaya and Swarna.
Use of nitrogen into 3 - 4 split doses.
Add 15 - 20 kgs of potash to reduce the disease intensity.
Avoid irrigation of drainage water from the infected field.
Destruction of weeds and collateral hosts on the field bunds.