Rice ragged stunt virus

Causative agent: Rice ragged stunt virus

Symptoms:

• severe stunting during early crop stages
• green leaves with darker than normal color
• spiral shapes at the base of leaf blades.
• swollen, pale yellow or white to dark brown veins developing on leaf blades and sheath
• twisted, malformed flag leaves that are shortened at booting stage
• delayed flowering
• incomplete panicle emergence
• nodal branches forming at the upper nodes
• partially exerted panicles and unfilled grains.