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This article is a list of diseases of papaya (Carica papaya). Bacterial diseases ... Unknown cause Nematodes, parasitic. Nematodes, parasitic; Reniform nematode
Pages in category "Papaya tree diseases" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Symptoms are typical of viral diseases. Papaya exhibits yellowing, leaf distortion, and severe mosaic. Oily or water-soaked spots and streaks appear on the trunk and petioles. The fruit will exhibit bumps and the classic "ringspot". A severe isolate of PRSV has also been shown to cause tissue necrosis. [8]
Rickettsia causes diseases in animals, such as typhus and spotted fever, [2] as well as in other plants, such as phony disease of peach and almond leaf scorch. [3] Papaya Bunchy Top is found throughout the American tropics and has been economically important due to its major impact on fruit production. [4]
Papaya leaf curl virus (PaLCuV) is a DNA virus from the genus Begomovirus and the family Geminiviridae. PaLCuV causes severe disease in papaya ( Carica papaya ), but can sometimes infect other crops such as tobacco or tomato . [ 1 ]
Erwinia papayae, the bacterial pathogen responsible for the disease, was first identified in 1931 in Java, Indonesia (Gardan et al. 2004), and has since spread to papaya growing countries worldwide—from the Caribbean to South America to South East Asia (Ollitrault et al. 2007).
Papaya mosaic virus (PapMV) is a plant pathogenic virus in the genus Potexvirus and the family Alphaflexiviridae. PapMV is a filamentous, flexuous rod, 530 nm in length. [ 1 ]
Papaya Lethal Yellowing Virus (PLYV) is an isometric viral plant pathogen, tentatively assigned to the genus Sobemovirus, [1] that causes lethal yellowing disease of the papaya plant. [ 2 ] The virus infects only Carica papaya , Jacaratia heterophylla , J. spinosa , Vasconcellea cauliflora , V. monoica and V. quercifolia , all from the papaya ...