Management
- The symptoms develop on the leaves and stem of seedlings or budded plants.
- On leaves, small water soaked lesions appear which later coalesce in the blighting of leaves.
- On stem, water soaked lesions develop initially and later turn to black colour.
- Stem infections develop any point on the stem causing the death of seedlings.
- Remove and destroy the affected seedlings.
- Spray with 1 percent Bordeaux mixture or 0.2% copper oxychloride just before the onset of monsoon and thereafter at frequent intervals.
