CHANGES IN ASCORBIC ACID CONTENT IN SUGARCANE AFFECTED WITH POKKAH BOENG DISEASE CAUSED BY FUSARIUM MONILIFORME SHOLDEN

India, being a mega-diverse country, has extensively cultivated sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) family Gramineae (Poaceae) from ancient to modern times. More than sixty percent of total cane area in the India is in the sub-tropics regions of the country. Gangetic plain of Uttar Pradesh has a fertile area which is highly suitable for agriculture, especially sugarcane cultivation. Sugarcane’s production and juice quality is extensively influenced by several parameters having resiliency like weather, variety, cultivation practices and disease causing organisms. Microbial consortium play important role to several changes in sugarcane from early stages till harvest. The aim of the finding work has been focused to point out the modulation in ascorbic acid content in sugarcane affected with Pokkah boeng disease caused by Fusarium moniliforme Sholden of sugarcane cropping through analysis of regional pattern of its cultivation and level of development of sugarcane. The Pokkah boeng disease (PBD) is a common airborne fungal pathogen Fusarium fujikuroi species and adversely affect the yield losses in different way beyond the thresh hold limit as used varieties of sugarcane throughout the producing countries. The bioactive composition of ascorbic acid in sugarcane juice was assayed by standard procedures to endurance ameliorating the holistic knowledge related to the objective under research.