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Bacterial blight of cotton is a disease affecting the cotton plant resulting from infection by Xanthomonas axonopodis pathovar malvacearum (Xcm) a Gram negative, motile rod-shaped, non spore-forming bacterium with a single polar flagellum
1 Bacterial. 2 Fungal. 3 Parastic. 4 Viral. 5 Phytoplasmal. 6 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... This article is a list of diseases of cotton (Gossypium ...
Bacterial seedling blight of rice (Oryza sativa), caused by pathogen Burkholderia plantarii [4] Early blight of potato and tomato, caused by species of the ubiquitous fungal genus Alternaria; Leaf blight of the grasses e.g. Ascochyta species [5] and Alternaria triticina that causes blight in wheat [6]
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Uncontrolled bacterial blight has been shown to cause yield losses up to 20%. [68] Symptoms include small, dry, and brittle yellowish-brown spots on the plant and stalks covered in bacterial ooze. [69] The primary treatment of bacterial blight is applications of copper before the crop is fully mature. [69]
It is now thought that the cotton dust directly causes the disease and some believe that the causative agents are endotoxins that come from the cell walls of gram-negative bacteria that grow on the cotton. [4] Although bacterial endotoxin is a likely cause, the absence of similar symptoms in workers in other industries exposed to endotoxins ...
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