Thursday, 12 April 2018

PRO/PL> Root knot disease, citrus & guava - India: (TN)

Other Plant Disease -- India
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has identified root-knot nematode in citrus plants for the 1st time in Tamil Nadu. A farmer had brought a wilted citrus sapling. TNAU's K Poornima said, "We found that the sapling was infected with root-knot nematodes. In the past few months, we found root-knot in citrus saplings in Coimbatore and Erode districts."
"There are also instances where there have been heavy losses in guava," said TNAU's S Subramanian [ProMED-mail post

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5743115&promed&0

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