Diseases of Fruit Plantation Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

Peach yellows

Causal organism: PHYTOPLASMA –LIKE ORGANISM
Symptoms


• Trees show numerous upright branches growing from the main stem.
• The branches are numerous and the tree looks bushy.
• The leaves are small but the basal 1 or 2 leaves are abnormally long.
• Most of the leaves show light green to yellow mottling and have irregular margins and clearing of veins.
• The trees are stunted , inter - nodes are short and appear bushy.
• Premature unfolding of leaf bud is common.
• The leaves on infected trees continue to grow even after the fall of normal leaves.
• The larger leaves on infected trees are also mottled.
• Wilting and die back symptoms appear later resulting in the death of plant.