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Cultivation practices of Apricot( Prunus armeniaca)
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Learn Fruit and Plantation Crop Production with Rahul
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Bacterial diseases

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

Management

  • Disease free suckers
  • Resistant variety Poovan can be grown