Mango and the disease
The low productivity in India production of mango is due to the associated disease problem.
Mango is affected by a number of disease at all stages of its development, right from the plants in the nursery to the fruits in storage or transit.
Hardly any plant organ is immune and almost every part viz. stem, branch, twig, root, leaf, petiole, flower and fruit are affect by various pathogens, yet there are few diseases which are of great economic importance.
These diseases manifest themselves as several kinds of rot, die back, mildew, necrosis, scab, blotch, stem bleeding, wilt, spots canker, sooty moldy and malformation.
Leaf spot diseases cause great loss and hamper the efforts made to increase the yield of mango tree.
They impoverish the leaves, diminished the phyto-synthetic efficiency and upset normal physiological activity of the host.
Some of theses disease take heavy tool of trees and have become limiting factor in mango cultivation in some regions.
Bloom blight or Blossom blight in some years causes a complete failure of the crop.
Other disease like bacterial canker, black tip, powder mildew, sooty mould and doe back in India are the sources of great loss to the orchardists.
Mango and the disease
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