After maize, wheat and rice, barley is the most widely planted and
economically important cereal crop in the Kyrgyzstan’s highlands
(Usubaliev et al., 2013) and worldwide. In two barley fields in the
Manas district of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, diseased plants exhibiting crown
and root rot, stunting and brown discolouration on internodes were
observed in 2020. Disease incidence was approximately 5% in the two
fields