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TOBACCO MOSAIC DR. RAJBIR SINGH Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Pathology Gochar Mahavidyalaya, Rampur Maniharan, Saharanpur (UP), India Affiliated to Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut (UP), India
Email: rajbir25805@yahoo.com, rajbirsingh2810@gmail.com
Cell No. 91-9456613374
Tobacco Mosaic• All over the world
• All states of country
• 150 spp. affected, Tobacco, tomato, potato, brinjal etc. • Most destructive in tobacco & tomato
• Quality & quantity reduced
• Quality loss – till 33%
• Quantity loss –till 50%
Symptoms :• First appear on new leaves
• Mottling
• Greening & yellowing of leaves
• Green parts - normal growth
• Yellow parts – growth stop
• Result – green parts form pits
• If infection in early stage - leaf twist & malformed
• Old leaves – yellow parts – brown
• Partial sterility in pollens
Pathogen – Tobacco mosaic virus / Nicotiana virus 1 • Rod shaped
• Size – 300 nm long • Diameter – 15 -18 nm
• Sap transmissible – by wounds
• Seed transmission in tomato but not in tobacco
• No insect vector is known
• Mechanical transmission
Disease Management
• Removal of crop resides & infected plants
• Removal of solanaceous weeds
• Crop rotation of 2 years
• Wash hand with Trisodium phospate
• Wash agril. equipments in Trisodium phospate
• No smoking
• Disease resistant varieties- Ambalema
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