Phytopathogenic mollicutes
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1

Comparative symptomatology of root (wilt) and mid whorl yellowing diseases of coconut in Kerala, India

  • Author:
  • Amitha Paul1,*, Joy Michal Johnson1, K Sinijadas1, Radhika Nurani Subramanian1, Radhakrishnan Nanjil Venkata Chalam1, Usha Chacko Thomas2, Swapna Alex3, Manju Ramakrishnan Nair Vimala Devi4
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Published Online: Mar 5, 2025
  • Page Number: 169 to 170

1Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram-695522, Kerala, India

2Instructional Farm, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram-695522, Kerala, India

3Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram-695522, Kerala, India

4Department of Plant Physiology, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram-695522, Kerala, India

*Corresponding author e-mail: Amitha Paul (amithapaulkky@gmail.com)

Online published on 5 March, 2025.

Abstract

Root (wilt) disease is a one and half century-old devastating disease of coconut producing flaccidity, yellowing of leaves and necrosis. In recent years another disease of coconut, is spreading in southern Kerala, the mid whorl yellowing disease. The primary symptoms of the latter are drastically different, like rapid mid whorl yellowing, abnormal shedding of nuts and flowers, drying of inflorescence and spadix and lethal decline similar to the lethal yellowing disease of coconut.

Keywords

Phytoplasma, Disease, Lethal yellowing