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Tomato Late Blight

Tomato Diseases

Late Blight

Symptoms


  • Water-soaked black lesions on leaves and stems.
  • Lesions expand rapidly and the entire leaf becomes necrotic.
  • White sporulation (sporangia and sporangiophores) on leaves.
  • Dark brown lesions on fruit.
  • Soft rot and disintegration of fruits.
  • Causal organism: Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary
  • Asexual spores: Indeterminate sporangiophores, Zoospores: Biflagellate with one tinsel flagellum directed anteriorly and one whiplash flagellum directed posteriorly
  • Pathogen: Hyaline and coenocytic
  • Sexual spores: Thick-walled oospore
  • Survival and Mode of Spread

> Survival: Infected Debris> Primary spread: Infected debris> Secondary spread: Wind

  • Favourable conditions:

> Cool nights, warm days and extended wet conditions from rain and fog> Sporangia formed when RH is ¡ 90%> Optimum temp for sporulation is 18 – 22oC

  • Proper drainage
  • Crop rotation
  • Soil application of Trichoderma asperellum (viride) @ 1.0 kg/ac

Fungicide

Dosage

Azoxystrobin 23% SC

200 ml/acre

Mancozeb 35% SC

 5 ml/lit

 Mancozeb 75% WP

  1-1.5 kg/acre

Azoxystrobin 18.2%+ Difenoconazole 11.4% SC

200 ml/acre

  • Water-soaked black lesions on leaves and stems.
  • Lesions expand rapidly and the entire leaf becomes necrotic.
  • White sporulation (sporangia and sporangiophores) on leaves.
  • Dark brown lesions on fruit.
  • Soft rot and disintegration of fruits.
  • Causal organism: Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary
  • Asexual spores: Indeterminate sporangiophores, Zoospores: Biflagellate with one tinsel flagellum directed anteriorly and one whiplash flagellum directed posteriorly
  • Pathogen: Hyaline and coenocytic
  • Sexual spores: Thick-walled oospore
  • Survival and Mode of Spread

> Survival: Infected Debris> Primary spread: Infected debris> Secondary spread: Wind

  • Favourable conditions:

> Cool nights, warm days and extended wet conditions from rain and fog> Sporangia formed when RH is ¡ 90%> Optimum temp for sporulation is 18 – 22oC

  • Proper drainage
  • Crop rotation
  • Soil application of Trichoderma asperellum (viride) @ 1.0 kg/ac

Fungicide

Dosage

Azoxystrobin 23% SC

200 ml/acre

Mancozeb 35% SC

 5 ml/lit

 Mancozeb 75% WP

  1-1.5 kg/acre

Azoxystrobin 18.2%+ Difenoconazole 11.4% SC

200 ml/acre


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