Diseases of Fruit Plantation Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

Minor disease

Minor diseases

Pink disease

• Causal organism: Pellicularia salmonicolor
Symptoms

• The first visible symptom is the appearance of salmon pink encrustation of fruiting bodies of the fungus on the bark of the stem.
Etiology

• The mycelium of the fungus is hyaline, thin walled and sparsely septate; hyphae are 7-15µm in diameter and the asexual spores are is hyaline.
Management

• Avoid inter cropping with areca
• Proper spacing should be given.
• The disease is controlled by reducing over head shade, proper pruning should be given to improve aeration inside the garden.
• Painting the cut ends with Bordeaux paste and regularly spraying the trees with Bordeaux mixture (1%) during rainy season are effective.