♥ Disease survey and surveillance for occurrence of any new sugarcane diseases in the farmers field

♥ Screening of sugarcane progenies & germplasm for diseases in National Hybridisation Garden

♥ Artificial screening of sugarcane clones against red rot pathotypes under controlled conditions

♥ Epidemiology and management of Fusarium diseases in sugarcane

♥ Characterization of rust resistance in sugarcane and dynamics of rust pathogens

♦ Selvakumar R. and R. Viswanathan (2019). Sugarcane rust: changing disease dynamics and its management. Journal of Sugarcane Research 9: 97-118.

♦ Selvakumar,R., R Viswanathan (2021). A low cost method for early detection of airborne Puccinia rust spores using glass slides and foldscope in the sugarcane field Indian Phytopathology, 1-3.

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♦ Viswanathan R., P. Padmanaban and R. Selvakumar (2020). Emergence of new pathogenic variants in Colletotrichum falcatum, stalk infecting ascomycete in sugarcane: role of host varieties. Sugar Tech 22: 473–484.

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♦ Viswanathan R., P. Padmanaban, D. Mohanraj, N. Prakasam, N. Singh, R. Selvakumar, P. Malathi and A. Ramesh Sundar (2018). Status of red rot resistance in wild relatives of sugarcane, Saccharum spontaneum, interspecific hybrids and intergeneric hybrids. Journal of Sugarcane Research 8(2): 169 – 184.

♦ Viswanathan R., R. Selvakumar, K. Manivannan, R. Nithyanandam and K. Kaverinathan (2020). Pathogenic behaviour of soil borne inoculum of Colletotrichum falcatum in causing red rot in sugarcane varieties with varying disease resistance. Sugar Tech 22(3):485–497.

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