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Pre-emergence Seed and Seedling Rot Symptoms Infected seed and seedlings are reduced to a dark brown or black spongy mass of rotted tissue It is seed borne fungi. So, decay is most rapid when infected seeds are sown.

Management

Sow good quality and disease-free seed. Avoid damage to the seed testa. Deep placement of seed at sowing. Treat the seed with Thiram at 3 g/kg seeds or with carbendazim at 2 g/kg seeds. Follow crop rotation, i.e., cereal-cereal-groundnut.