Fig. 2.

Symptoms of wheat blast and burning of a wheat blast infected field. (A) Complete bleaching of four wheat spikes above the point of infection collected from a blast infected field of Meherpur in Bangladesh in 2018, (B) Complete bleaching of five wheat spikes above the point of infection collected from a suspected blast infected field of West Bengal in India in 2017 (photo generously provided by Sunita Mahapatra, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, India, (C) Typical eye-shaped lesions and dark gray spots on a severely diseased wheat leaf, (D) Severe blast-affected shriveled and pale wheat seeds cv. Prodip, (E) Clearing of a severely blast affected field of wheat in Chuadanga, Bangladesh by burning (see a video clip at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmL5YM0kIok).