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