Kiran M.1*, Krishnanunni M. R.2, Gopakumar S.3, Vidyasagaran K.4 and Reshmy V.5
1,3,4Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Forestry, Kerala Agricultural University, 2Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 5Department of Plant Pathology, College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University.
Email: mohan.kiran959@gmail.com
Received-08.08.2020, Revised-30.08.2020
Abstract: This article reports the first case of Fusariumsolanicaused tuber rot in Borassusflabellifer from India.
Keywords: Fusarium, India, Palmyra, Seedling, Tuber rot
References
Bhuvaneswari, V., Venkataramana, K.T., Bhagavan, B.V.K. and Nagalakshmi, R. (2010) Thielaviopsisstate of Ceratocystisparadoxa– a new pathogen causing tuber rot of palmyrah. Indian Phytopath 63(3): 359.
Blatter, E. (1926). The palms of British India and Ceylon. Oxford Umv Press, London.
Maheshwarappa, H.P. and Rajkumar (2014). Research Accomplishment of AICRP on Palms (1972-2014). A technical bulleting no. 85 of All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Palms CPCRI Kasargod, Kerala.pp.35-36.
Marudarajan, D. (1941). Observations on the production of sexual organs in paired cultures of Phytophthora species of the Palmivora group. Proc Indian AcadSci 14: 384—389.
McRae, W. (1923). History of the operations against bud-rot of palms in South India. Inoculation experiments with Phytophthorapalmivora BUTL. OnBorassusflabellifer LIN. AndCocosnucifera LINN. Mem. DeptAgriclndia Bot Ser 12: 21-70.
Sankaralingam, A. (1999). Management of tuber rot in Palmyrah palm. J Myco Plant Pathol 29(1): 114-115.