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Disease of Ginger

The document outlines various diseases affecting ginger, including rhizome rot, yellows caused by Fusarium oxysporum, and ginger leaf spot caused by Phyllosticta zingiberi. It describes symptoms, modes of spread, and management strategies for each disease, emphasizing the importance of using healthy seed rhizomes and appropriate fungicides. Favorable conditions for these diseases include high humidity and specific temperature ranges, which can exacerbate their spread.

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Disease of Ginger

The document outlines various diseases affecting ginger, including rhizome rot, yellows caused by Fusarium oxysporum, and ginger leaf spot caused by Phyllosticta zingiberi. It describes symptoms, modes of spread, and management strategies for each disease, emphasizing the importance of using healthy seed rhizomes and appropriate fungicides. Favorable conditions for these diseases include high humidity and specific temperature ranges, which can exacerbate their spread.

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 1.

Rhizome rot : Fungal and Bacterial


complex
 2. Yellows : Fusarium oxysporum
 3. Ginger leaf spot : Phyllosticta

zingiberi
 Fungal and Bacterial complex
 Complex disease-Pythium

aphanidermatum, (soft rot),


Pseudomonas solanacearum, (bacterial
wilt), Fusarium sp. (Yellow),
nematodes, rhizome maggots of
Mimegrella coeru-lifrons and Eumerous
pulcherrimus
 Symptoms:
 Soft rot: Appears in the seedling stage itself

if rhizomes are infected and causes


damping off.
 Plants become pale, leaf tips turn yellow

and the infection gradually spreads down


the leaf blade and leaf sheath along the
margin.
 Often the middle portion of the lamina

remains green while margins turn yellow.


 Yellowing spreads from bottom upwards;

leaves droop, plants wither and dry.


 Mode of spread and survival:
 Survives in soil and seed rhizomes scales as

oospores, and plant debris.


 Bacterial wilt: The lowermost leaf shows

yellow to bronze coloration of leaf margins,


become flaccid, and droop, it spreads
upwards.
 Management:
 Use healthy seed rhizomes, selected from disease
free areas. Treat seed rhizomes with 0.3% Dithane
Z-78 or 0.3% Blitox-50 and 200 ppm Streptocycline
for 30 min. each and store in sand-lined pits.
 Provide adequate aeration with a wooden plank
placed as a cover, provided with holes.
 Before planting, all plant debris must be destroyed
and burnt.
 Planting should be done in raised beds with
adequate drainage
 Rotate with crops not infected by the pathogens.
 When symptoms appear drench with 0.3% Dithane
M-45 or spray 100 ppm Streptocycline or Agrimycin
100 for bacterial wilt.
 Rhizome dipped in Copper oxy chloride
( 0.3% )
 Application of Trichoderma sp
 Harvesting ginger for seed purpose, do not

commence until tops have died naturally


and harvest rhizomes are dry and store in
new bags in dry and well ventilated shed
 Symptoms:
 Yellowing of the margins of the lower leaves

which gradually spreads to the entire leaf;


the affected plant wilts and dries but does
not fall down, rhizomes show creamy
discoloration of the vascular system and a
cortical rot.
 Favourable conditions:
 Very high humidity (87-95%) and 23-29°C.
 Mode of spread and survival:
 Infected rhizomes, secondary spread

byconidia carried by rain water.


 Management:
 Disease free rhizome should be used for

planting
 Crop rotation,
 seed treatment with organo mercurial

fungicide
 Drench soil with 0.3% Dithane M-45 or 01%

Benlate (or) Bavistin.


 Symptoms:
 Small, oval, elongate spots 1-10 0.5mm;

mature spots have a dark brown margin


papery white centre and yellow halo spots
coalesce and cause extensive
discolouration.
 Favourable conditions:
 Growing without natural shade.
 Mode of spread:
 Rain splashes
 Management:
 Spray (0.2%) Dithane Z-78 or 1% Bordeaux

mixture or Captafol

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