About Lesson
Bacterial diseases
- Moko wilt ( Pseudomonas solanacearum)
- On leaves, yellowing starts from the inner leaf close to petiole and slowly spreads up ward. All the leaves turn yellow and wilting occurs
Management
- Good drainage facilities
- Suppress the wilt by bacteriazation with inflorescens
- Crop rotation with sorghum
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- Tip over or heart rot ( Erwinia carotovora)
- Seen mostly in tissue cultured plants . The middle tender leaf show rotting.
- Pseudostem easily comes out from corm portion
- Bacterial oozing from edge of corm and pseudostem is also noticed
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Management
- Disease free suckers
- Resistant variety Poovan can be grown