Vol. 6, Issue 2 (2018)
A review on advancement on wilt disease of Psidium Guajava L. with special reference to management
Author(s): Shambhu Roy, Dhyanananda Kumari, Aroondhati Choudhary, Mina Kumari, Uday Kumar,Munna Yadav, Rajendra Prasad and Pankaj Kumar
Abstract: Guava, is one of the most promising fruit crops of India and is considered to be one of the exquisite nutritionally valuable and remunerative crops. It is grown almost in all the states of India. It is a hardy crop and is cultivated successfully even in neglected soils and is attacked by a large number of pathogens, mainly fungi. Wilt is the most destructive disease for guava plant in India and losses due to this disease are substantial. Wilt of guava from India was first reported in 1935 from Allahabad. Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. psidii and, F. solani have been reported as causative agents of this disease. The disease is soil-borne and is difficult to control. Wilt is predominantly caused by the species of Fusarium, of which F. oxysporum is generally the main cause. The other species of Fusarium i.e., Fusarium solaniai also dominates in isolation. Since, the disease results in the complete mortality of the affected plants, the loss is total. Although, severe loss is there in the annual crops also, huge monitory losses occai especially in perennial fruit trees as it is a loss of labour of several years. Guava is a crop where this disease is very serious and it can be said that this is the only disease of guava which is threatening guava cultivation in India. It causes monitory as well as nutritional loss. The present communication, deals guava wilt to depict its present status.
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Shambhu Roy, Dhyanananda Kumari, Aroondhati Choudhary, Mina Kumari, Uday Kumar,Munna Yadav, Rajendra Prasad, Pankaj Kumar. A review on advancement on wilt disease of Psidium Guajava L. with special reference to management. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(2):3734-3740.
