Finger millet blast pathogen diversity and management in East Africa: a summary of project activities and outputs

Abstract

Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America, Lubbock, USA, International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter 45:66-69. This paper covers the results of studies on the genetic diversity of Magnaporthe grisea causing blast disease in finger millet (Eleusine coracana) in East Africa; pathogen aggressiveness and epidemiology; disease and socioeconomic surveys in Kenya; and finger millet varietal screening for blast resistance