Symptoms

• Affected plants show whitish powdery growth on leaves, petiole, stem pedicel and seeds.
• At later stages of attack seeds become white and shriveled and light in weight.

Management

• Crop should be dusted with Sulphur dust @ 25 kg/ha to control this disease as soon as the symptoms are noticed.
• Spraying of wettable Sulphur 0.25% or Dinocap (Karathan 0.05%) can also be used to control the disease
• If needed second spray should be given 15-20 day after first spray.