Compendium of Potato Diseases - (PDF, 101 mb) - USAID
Compendium of Potato Diseases - (PDF, 101 mb) - USAID
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Diagnostic Microbial Structures<br />
Sclerotia<br />
Black - white mold, gray mold, Rhizoctonia, charcoal rot<br />
Purplish black- violet root rot<br />
Very small, black black dot<br />
ran - stem rot<br />
Bacterial Exudate from Vascular Tissue<br />
Abundant, gray -- brown rot<br />
Sparse, white ring rot<br />
Prominent Mycelium in or on Soil<br />
White white mold<br />
White, fanlike-- stem rot<br />
Grayish white ---Rosellinia<br />
Brown, in strands near or on tubers-Xylaria, Armillaria<br />
Entire Plant<br />
Distinct Symptoms Lacking<br />
Unusually large - giant hill<br />
Off-color, poor growth --general nutrient deficiency, several nutrient<br />
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Bronzing<br />
General or <strong>of</strong> old leaves- photochemical oxidant air pollution,<br />
potassium or zinc deficiency, Fusarium wilt<br />
Of tip leaves psyllid yellows<br />
Upright growth habit - PI.RV in andigena types, PSTVL<br />
Stunting and/or Poor Growth<br />
Beginning in localized areas <strong>of</strong> field --nematodes (cyst, root-knot, false<br />
root-knot, stubby-root, lesion).<br />
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Mild ,o%evere --several virus diseases (PLRV, PVY, PVM,APMV,<br />
TBRV,PSTV, PYDV, BCTV)<br />
Pale light green to yellow leaves, later necrotic -magnesium deficiency<br />
Dark green several mosaic viruses<br />
Early in season---potassium deficiency<br />
Lusterless phosphorus deficiency<br />
Dwarfing BCTV, PYDV, PMTV<br />
Early maturity - several nutritional deficiencies<br />
Lower leaves mature, speckled - photochemical oxidant air pollution<br />
General chlorosis, usually from base upward-Verticillium wilt<br />
Key to Disease<br />
Necrosis<br />
Systemic (top necrosis)-PVX, PAMV,APMV, PVT, TSWV<br />
Defoliation from bottom toward top <strong>of</strong> plant-early blight,<br />
photochemical oxidant air pollution, powdery mildew, pink rot, PVY<br />
Deformed<br />
Internodes shortened<br />
Downward leaf curl -potassium deficiency<br />
Bushy appearance--boron defiiency, PYDV, Fusarium wilts<br />
Spindly, crinkled leaves-chemical injury<br />
Chlorotic to necrotic margins phosphorus deficiency<br />
Numerous stems, bushy-- genetic abnormalities, mycoplasmas<br />
Rosette<br />
At tip-calcium deficiency<br />
With dwarfing-ring rot<br />
Red pigmentation or chlorosis <strong>of</strong> apical leaves, stunting, general<br />
chlorosis, thickening <strong>of</strong> nodes, aerial tubers, vascular necrosis, basal<br />
stem necrosis, or early death--blackleg, Rhizoctonia, mycoplasma,<br />
Fusarium wilts, BCTV, psyllid yellows<br />
Stem<br />
Numerous-coiled sprout<br />
And thin-genetic abnormalities, hair sprout, mycoplasmas, TMV<br />
Stoentlng<br />
Of some stems--TRY<br />
And internodes shortened-PVY, PMTV, PYDV<br />
Lesions Originating Below Ground<br />
Black, extending upward from seed tuber, pith dark, cortical<br />
decay-blackleg, pink rot<br />
Brown-common scab, skiii spot, black dot<br />
Girdling <strong>of</strong> stem- Rhizoctonia<br />
Rot, with dry shredding--Fusarium wilts, mycoplasmas<br />
With prominent gray fungus, mold growth- Rosellinia<br />
Lesions at or Near Soil Surface<br />
Girdliog and collapse, bleached color-heat injury<br />
White pi . -mis at soil line, cross-hatched collapse <strong>of</strong> pith-lightning<br />
injury<br />
No underyling necrosis on stem surface<br />
Red to purple mycelium-violet<br />
Surface<br />
root rot<br />
moldy, white at soil line, watery rot, stem collapse<br />
Late maturity, larger than normal-genetic abnormalitiesRetoprlmylim-oltotrt<br />
Wilt<br />
With drought stre! -nematodes (cyst. root-knot, false root-knot)<br />
Chlorosis, wilt, and early death-- black do., violet root rot. brown rot,<br />
charcoal rot<br />
In groups in the field- -Rosellinia<br />
With vascular discoloration Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilts<br />
Wilt or chlorosis<br />
Of one stem or on one side <strong>of</strong> leaf, stem, or side <strong>of</strong> plant-brown rot,<br />
Fusarium wilt, Verticillium wilt, ring rot<br />
Of green leaves and stems, later chlorosis and necrosis-ring rot,<br />
brown rot, pink rot, stem rot<br />
Rapid green collapse and death <strong>of</strong> some or all plants in localized areas<br />
<strong>of</strong> field-lightning injury<br />
Black sclerotia--white mold<br />
Tan sclerotia-stem rot<br />
Lesions Above Soil Surface<br />
Epidermis white, underlying tissue usually unaffected-sunscald, hail<br />
injury<br />
Necrosis, black to brown<br />
Extensive--late blight<br />
Restricted in size-early blight<br />
Stippled flecks--powdery mildew<br />
Also <strong>of</strong> petiole, stem brittle-manganese toxicity<br />
Brown necrotic streaks on stems and petioles-PVY, TSWV<br />
At petiole attachment-blackleg, late blight, gray mold<br />
Light brown broad zonation-white mold<br />
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