S.No Observations T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9 1 Av. No of tillers per hill 4 5 7 9 12 8 11 9 4 2 Av. No of grains 85 95 90 110 126 1OO 117 100 75 3 1000 grain weight (gm) 22 26 28 33 31 25 29 23 22 4 Disease incidence (%) 65 58 45 40 38 65 62 58 55

Table 1: Pretreatment data in each of the selected blocks.