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Pigeon Pea Wilt: Causes & Management

1. Wilt of Red gram/Pigeon pea/Arhar is a dangerous disease first reported in 1906 that can cause up to 50% loss. 2. The disease appears as patches of wilting and blackening of plant stems near the soil that spreads upwards. 3. The pathogen is Fusarium udum, which survives as macroconidia and chlamydospores in vascular tissues and soil.

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Pigeon Pea Wilt: Causes & Management

1. Wilt of Red gram/Pigeon pea/Arhar is a dangerous disease first reported in 1906 that can cause up to 50% loss. 2. The disease appears as patches of wilting and blackening of plant stems near the soil that spreads upwards. 3. The pathogen is Fusarium udum, which survives as macroconidia and chlamydospores in vascular tissues and soil.

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Wilt of Red gram/Pigeon pea/Arhar

DR. RAJBIR SINGH


Assistant Professor

Department of Plant Pathology


Gochar Mahavidyalaya, Rampur Maniharan, Saharanpur (UP), India
Affiliated to Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut (UP), India

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Cell No. 91-9456613374


Wilt of Red gram/Pigeon pea/Arhar

• Reported by Butler in 1906

• Most dangerous disease of pigeon pea

• All arhar growing states of India

• Loss – 50%
Symptoms
• Generally 5-6 weeks DAS but at any stage

• Symptoms appear after rainy season

• Appear in patches

• Plant affected partially or completely

• Blacking on stem near soil & upward several feet

• Cortex filled with white/ white pinkish mycelial growth

• Wilting & dieing of plants


Systemic Position

Kingdom – Mycota/ Fungi

Division – Eumycota

Sub division – Deuteromycotina

Class – Hypomycetes

Order – Hypomycetales

Family – Dematiaceae

Genus – Alternaria

Species - solani
Pathogen: Fusarium udum - Perfect stage

Gibberella inica – Imperfect stage

• Vascular tissues – filled with mycelium

• Survive as macroconidia &chlamydospore

• Fav. Tem. – 17-19° C

• Microconidia- form on mycelium (6-11 x 2-3 µm)

• Macroconidia–form in sporodochia, 3-4 septa (15-50 x 3-5 µm)

• Chlamydospore – form on mycelium (5-10 µm) diameter

• Asospore – 8 (60-80 x 6-10 µm )


Macro conidia of Fusarium oxysporium
Macro and Micro conidia of Fusarium oxysporium
Chalamydospore of Fusarium oxysporium
Disease Management
• Crop rotation of 4 – 5 years

• Mixed cropping – Jower + Arhar

Jower ---- HCN

• Green Manuring – Neem & Jatropha

• Soil treatment – 1 part Formalin + 400 parts water

• Disease resistant varieties – C- 11, KWR-1, S-103,

Pusa 853, Pusa 855 etc.


Thank You

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