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Compendium of Potato Diseases - (PDF, 101 mb) - USAID

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Vascular Discoloration<br />

Brown, most severe in lower part, extending also above<br />

ground - Fusarium wilts. Verticillium wilt<br />

Black - brown rot. blackleg<br />

Pith Necrosis<br />

Brown, near tip- PYDV<br />

Black at base blackleg<br />

At nodes- Fusarium wilts<br />

Aerial Tubers and/or Enlarged Nodes--pink rot, Fusarium wilts,<br />

mycoplasmas, psyllid yellows. Rhizoctonia<br />

Galls - wart, smut<br />

Swelling, Twisting, and Deformation-rusts, coiled sprout<br />

Mosaic Mottles<br />

Symptomless, very mild to severe rugosity - PVX. PVS. PVM, PVY.<br />

PVA. PVT. APMV. API'. CMV, TMV, TRV. AMV, PAMV,<br />

deforming mosaic frost injury<br />

On tip leaves fusirium wilts<br />

Netting <strong>of</strong> minor eafsins AP<br />

And veinal necrosis PVT<br />

Rough, crinkly P'Y. PVM. PYVV<br />

Yellow areas. pale to bright AMV. TRV, PMTV, TBRV, PYVV.<br />

TR SVsp<br />

More severe on lower leaves PAM<br />

Chlorosis<br />

General Fusarium wilt. Verticillium wilt<br />

Greenish spots on low shaded leaves PVS<br />

Interveinal Chlorosis or Necrosis<br />

Of tip leases manganese deficiency<br />

Of lower leaves ring rot<br />

To white yellow chlorosis sulfur oxide air pollution, manganese<br />

toxicity, magnesium deficiency<br />

Deformed<br />

Crinkled. rugose PVY. PVA. deforming mosaic<br />

Small. twisted. possibly with short petioles and stem internodes<br />

PAMV. PVM, IMV. CMV, TBRV, TRV, PMTV, APMV, PSTV,<br />

genetic abnormalities, chemical injury<br />

Young leaves twisted and cupped zinc deficiency<br />

Cupped phosphorus delicienc'<br />

On tip leaves iBRV<br />

Irregular holes, banded, mottled low temperature vine injury<br />

Flongate. puckered, pinched, veins prominent -chemical injury. CMV,<br />

TMV, loss- temperature nitrogen toxicity<br />

Pustules. orange, red to brown enlargements, or twisting--rusts<br />

Small with fluted margins, acute petiole-stem angle -- PSTV<br />

Small, numerous thin stems mycoplasmas<br />

Many leaves, simple (not compound) genetic abnormalities,<br />

witches' broom, stolbur<br />

Upward Rolling<br />

Stiff, papery texture, pale color PLRV, boron deficiency<br />

Throughout plant, downward roll <strong>of</strong> petioles - PYDV<br />

Of tip leaves, possibly pink at margins PLRV, manganese deficiency,<br />

PVM. mycoplasmas, BCTV, psyllid yellows<br />

With chlorosis zinc deficiency<br />

Of lower leaves or throughout the plant. chlorosis absent to<br />

mild nonvirus leafroll, PI.RV, PVM, potassium, phosphorus, or<br />

boron deficiency<br />

Chlorotic or necrotic margins calcium deficiency<br />

Upward rolling severe at plant tip. chlorosis orred at bases <strong>of</strong> tip leaves.<br />

may be accompanied by aerial tubers blackleg. Rhizoctonia.<br />

mycoplasmas, Fusarium wilts<br />

Dwarfing, marginal and interveinal chlorosis - PI.RV in andigena types<br />

Thick. brittle, interveinal chlorosis or necrosis-- magnesium deficiency<br />

Tattered edges or with holes wind or hail injury, Ulocladium blight<br />

Necrosis<br />

At tip <strong>of</strong> plant-- frost injury<br />

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Bronzed<br />

On upper surface and margins -- photochemical oxidant air<br />

pollution<br />

Necrotic - potassium deficiency<br />

And necrotic spots PVS<br />

And extensive systemic necrosis- Fusarium wilt<br />

On epidermal surface or extending through the leaf-wind injury<br />

Of veins- PVT<br />

And stem streak PVY<br />

Flecks to streaks manganese toxicity<br />

Systemic leaflet and petiole necrosis AMV, APMV, TSWV<br />

And leaf drop -PVY<br />

Necrotic I Pqions<br />

SpecKling ot lower leaves but also on upper leaves--- nitrogen deficiency<br />

chemical injury. photochemical oxidant air pollution, manganese<br />

toxicity<br />

Necrotic spots and rings TBRV, TRSV, TSWV, PVY<br />

Necrosis <strong>of</strong> petioles and leaflets TSWV, PVY<br />

Without concentric zonation<br />

Black when wet, brown when dry, with or without sparse white<br />

Initially sporulation,<br />

water-soaked<br />

possibly yellow halo -late blight<br />

large necrotic lesions-- Choanephora<br />

Yellowish to purple<br />

blight<br />

Ccr:ospora leaf blotch<br />

Tan. angular Stemphr-lium consortiah.<br />

At mechanical wounds, dark to black Ulocladium blight<br />

Green to black. white to gray-brown sporulation---powdery mildew<br />

Light colored Pleospjora herharuot<br />

With concentric zonation<br />

Broad zonation, wedge-shaped, circular to irregular, tan<br />

sporulation -gray mold<br />

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Narrow<br />

Round, zonation<br />

brown Phoma leaf spot<br />

Round or angular lesi'ins with pycnidia-Septoria leaf spot<br />

Brown black- TSWV<br />

Angular (limited by veins) -- early blight, Alternwria ahernata<br />

Tuber<br />

Small Size-- various viruses. genetic abnormalities, nutrient i<strong>mb</strong>alances<br />

Many tubers -- witches' broom, psyllid yellows, second growth<br />

Flaccid or Wilted--mycoplasma<br />

Forming Secondary Tubers or Plants Prematurely- second growth,<br />

secondary tubers<br />

Galls<br />

Green, brown to black--wart<br />

Tuberlike, deformed-smut<br />

Raised. pimplelike, purple-brown-powdery scab, skin spot<br />

White tufts-enlarged lenticels<br />

To brown galls later becoming necrotic depression-powdery scab<br />

Warty-- root knot nematode<br />

Also pimples --lesion nematode<br />

Deformed<br />

Irregular shape -second growth, compacted soil, PAMV, PSTV,<br />

Rhizoctonia. mycoplasmas<br />

Set close to stem, stolons very short-Rhizoctonia, blackleg,<br />

mycoplasmas<br />

Protruding eyes- second growth, PYVV<br />

Pointed ends--second growth. PSTV<br />

Elongate, round in cross-section-- PSTV<br />

Dwarfed, deformed, possibly cracked, with internal necrotic<br />

spots--AMV. PYDV, TRV, TSWV, PSTV, chemical injury<br />

Internal arcs or rings - TRV. PMTV<br />

Warty with internal black, scattered areas-smut<br />

Normal Tuber Shape, Surface Unblemished<br />

Black sclerotia on tubersrlace (soil that will not wash <strong>of</strong>f)-Rhizoctonia<br />

Interior glassy or watery throughout orat stolen end--second growth,<br />

frozen tissue<br />

Starch deposition irregular to very low-second growth, immature<br />

tubers<br />

Sugar in tissue -- low temperature storage

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