Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 22
  • Issue: 2

Prevalence of black leaf spot of papaya caused by Asperisporium caricae in Tamil Nadu, India

  • Author:
  • G. Thiribhuvanamala1,, D. Alice1, S. Parthasarathy1, G. Karthikeyan1, M. Krishna Reddy2, K. Soorianatha Sundaram3
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 193 to 194

1Department of Plant Pathology, Centre for Plant Protection Studies, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641003, India

2Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesaraghatta Lake Post, Bangalore-560089, India

3Department of Fruit Crops, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641003, India

*E-mail: ragumala2000@gmail.com

Online published on 19 July, 2017.

Abstract

Papaya crop is affected both by several fungal and viral diseases that cause a great threat to papaya cultivation worldwide. In Tamil Nadu, recently severe incidence of black leaf spot caused by Asperisporium caricae was observed in commercially grown papaya varieties. The disease has been documented with pathogen characters and discussed in this paper with a view to give due importance to under take steps to mitigate the crop loss.

Keywords

Black spot, Carica papaya, fungal disease, Tamil Nadu