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Root rot (fomes spp., fusarium spp.)
Symptoms
  • Stump or brown root-rots: affected bushes show a gradual yellowing of leaves and defoliation and death. Affected roots are brittle and show dark brown wavy lines of the fungus.
  • Fusarial root rot or wilt: a sudded wilting and yellowing of leaves leading to defoliation and death of aerial parts. Roots turn brown to pinkish.

Management

  • Burn the plants at site, isolate affected patches by digging deep trenches, ring the bark and poison the shade trees while thinning.
  • Remove the affected plants and treat the soil at 1kg lime per plant to raise the soil pH.
  • Treat the soil around the affected area with PDCB or brassicol at 0.4%. Maintain the vigour of plants.

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Root rot

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