Stunting disease of sugar cane:-
Casual organisms:-
Clavibacter xyli sub s.p xyli.
Symptoms:-
Disease stool show the stunted growth reduced tillering and inter nodal length reduced.
Stunting of sugar cane with leaves.
These symptoms may be due deficiency of nutrients.
Due to lack of water and may poor growth of cane.
General type of symptoms that appear of a plant part.
Disease cycle:
The bacteria can be observed in node, inter node , young tiller , tillering and also in the just below the growing point.
So these suggest the systematic infection.
The maximum number of basal inter node of the cane.
RSD is sap transmitted not in set transmitted.
No insect vector is known.
Survive in cane debris.
Field dispersion take place during harvesting.
Management:-
Sowing of disease free sets is recommended
Selection of seed from commercial crop.
Field therapy.
Dipping the sets at 50⁰C for an hour and presoaking at 24⁰C for 24 hour increase the efficiency of hot water treatment