National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Coconut nut rot disease is one of the major economic constraints which hampers coconut production in India. An extensive disease survey was conducted during July 2015 - September 2016 to assess the nut rot incidence in major coconut growing tracts of Tamil Nadu. The young palms of 5-10 years were found to be more susceptible to nut rot than matured palms. A fungal pathogen was found to be consistently associated with nut rot disease and identified as Lasiodiplodia theobromae based on morphological characters. A type culture of pathogen was submitted to Indian Type Culture Collection (ITCC), Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi with the accession number of 10,517.17. The different methods of inoculation L. theobromae through pin prick along with spore suspension spray was found to be the best which record higher severity inoculated with seven month old coconuts.
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