Wheat is the most important food crop in India. During 2017-18, India’s harvesting recorded wheat grain production mt from mha cultivated area. India’s participation in the international wheat trade however is not up to the mark as being a major wheat producer. One of the major constraints in exporting wheat is prevalence of Karnal bunt (KB), internationally quarantined disease in the Indo-gangetic plain, major wheat bowl of the country. | Characterisation of isolates of tilletia indica inciting karnal bunt of wheat Triticum aestivum L.
