Symptom:

• Initial symptoms of mottle streak disease appear around 45 days after sowing in funnel leaves as small sparse chlorotic specks.
• The virus-affected plants are stunted and pale green in colour.
• Later the specks coalesce leading to short streaks.
• Yellowing of plants in severe infection.
• Infected plants produce more of nodal branches and unproductive tillers.
• Failure of earhead emergence with sparse grains is noticed during initial and late infection.
• Vector for this disease is leaf hopper, Cicadulina