The relation between soil moisture content (SMC) and development of phytophthora blight disease of pigeonpea was determined. Among all the SMC, flooding condition yielded the highest occurrence of disease with shortest incubation period (IP). Further assay to ascertain the duration of flooding and disease progress, result shows minimum of 24 hours of flooding is sufficient to initiate the disease with IP period of 24 hours. | Unravelling role of edaphic stress on development of phytophthora blight (Phytophthora cajani) in pigeonpea
