Yellow patches or spots on leaves and pods Infected plant produce small and distorted pods Early infection causes death of the plant before seed set Causal agent Mungbean yellow mosaic virus Single-stranded circular DNA virus (geminivirus), genus Begomovirus Survival and mode of spread Survival: Weed hosts and other legume crops Spread: Wind-borne viruliferous white fly, Bemisia tabaci Favourable conditions Summer sown crops Weed hosts viz., Croton sparsiflorus, Acalypha indica, Eclipta alba and Cosmos pinnatus and legume hosts Integrated disease management Seed soaking with borax @ 2g/kg +10% nochi leaf extract @ 300 ml/kg for 30 minutes followed by seed treatment with imidacloprid 600 FS @ 5 ml / kg of seed Soil application of Bacillus subtilis @ 2.5 kg/ ha with 250 kgs of farm yard manure Border row planting of maize (2 rows) Rogue out virus infected plants upto 25 DAS Installing yellow sticky traps @ 5 Nos. / acre Foliar spray of borax @ 0.1% and nochi leaf extract 10% at 30 DAS Need based spraying of acetamiprid 20 SP @ 250g / ha
Yellow patches or spots on leaves and pods
Infected plant produce small and distorted pods
Early infection causes death of the plant before seed set
Single-stranded circular DNA virus (geminivirus), genus Begomovirus
Survival: Weed hosts and other legume crops
Spread: Wind-borne viruliferous white fly, Bemisia tabaci
Summer sown crops
Weed hosts viz., Croton sparsiflorus, Acalypha indica, Eclipta alba and Cosmos pinnatus and legume hosts
Seed soaking with borax @ 2g/kg +10% nochi leaf extract @ 300 ml/kg for 30 minutes followed by seed treatment with imidacloprid 600 FS @ 5 ml / kg of seed
Need based spraying of acetamiprid 20 SP @ 250g / ha
