Light yellow streaks run parallel to leaf veins giving the leaf a striped appearance. Moko disease caused by the bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most devastating diseases of banana and plantain.
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. The streaks run usually from mid rib to edge of the blade. There are instances when small growers those who cultivate 3 to 5 hectares have sustained as high as 70 to 80 percent plant losses due to Moko. When the disease occurs on cooking bananas of the ABB and BBB type it is called Bugtok.
2 Xanthomonas wilt of banana and enset caused by Xanthomonas campestrispv. Moko is caused by a bacterium called Ralstonia solanacearum which belongs to a group of pathogens that cause bacterial wilts in banana. Moko and bugtok diseases of banana are caused by Ralstonia solanacearum Smith Yabuuchi et al.
Moko disease wilt of banana Moko wilt of Banana Causal organism. Moko disease is a bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum invading the vascular tissues of hosts. Symptoms of banana blood disease share many characteristics with the insect-transmitted A and SFR strains of R.
The list gives the distribution of the pathogen that causes Moko and Bugtok diseases of triploid bananas and also infects Heliconia spp. Ralstonia solanacearum is a species complex with exceptional diversity amongst strains from different hosts and geographical origins. Its management is difficult given the aggressiveness and easy.
Bacterial diseases in bananas and enset can be divided into three groups. Moko disease or bacterial wilt of bananas Philippines 1983 Rillo AR. Solanacearum causing Moko disease namely discoloration and shriveling of the male flower bud and peduncle reddish dry rot of the fruit pulp and reddish discoloration of vascular tissue throughout the plant which emits reddish-brown bacterial ooze.
Ralstonia solanacearum Yubucchi et al It was first recorded in Guyana in 1840. Access the full text NOT AVAILABLE. Banana plants in asymptomatic state are not.
Symptoms Yellowing of younger leaves is the primary symptom. Lookup at Google Scholar. Moko disease is a bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum invading the vascular tissues of hosts.
Many strains have less than 70 DNA-DNA homology which has been considered a threshold level within a species. When talking about threats in Ecuadors banana industry concern is focused on the. The plant disease Moko caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is the most important bacterial disease in banana and plantain crops worldwide.
Virus is disseminated by suckers and Aphis gossypi. Records are of confirmed race 2 or presumed race 2 based on host range. Managing moko a major disease affecting Cavendish bananas has been the focus of growers scientists economists and theorists for yearsFor one thing the economic impact of Moko can be disastrous.
Susceptible varieties are the Robusta and Poovan from Tamilnadu. It is related to banana blood disease. This soil-borne bacterium causes bacterial wilt in bananas and is also the causal agent of brown rot of potato bacterial wilt or southern wilt of tomato tobacco eggplant and some ornamentals.
It is considered a plantation with a maximum capacity of banana plants k It is considered that the disease of the banana Moko follows a model Epidemic type SI Susceptible-Infectious. Moko disease of banana is caused by the bacterial pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum formally Pseudomonas solanacearum. 1 Ralstonia-associated diseases MokoBugtok disease caused by Ralstonia solanacearumand banana blood disease caused by R.
In India the disease was first reported from West Bengal. The disease is known to occur in all banana-growing states. In the Philippines the two diseases may seem different because moko is observed more often affecting the export variety Cavendish with wilt symptom while bugtok is very common in cooking bananas like Saba and Cardaba as fruit pulp discoloration.
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