Diseases of Fruit Plantation Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

Belladona mottle disease

Causal organism: Mottle Virus
Symptoms

• The characteristics symptoms are the slight clearing of veins and crumpling of leaves, followed by a light or dark green mottle, together with blistering and distortion of leaves and stunting of the plants.
• Vector are not known.
• Primary source of inoculum: Affected planting material, collateral hosts
Management

• Use disease free seeds
• Destroy the affected plants by burning or burying them deep in the soil.
• Equipments should be washed thoroughly with water
• Soil solarization or fumigation with methyl bromide helps to reduce virus spread through infected materials lying in the soil.