ALTERNARIA DISEASES OF VEGETABLE CROPS AND ITS MANAGEMENT CONTROL TO REDUCE THE LOW PRODUCTION

V. SINGH¹*, A. SHRIVASTAVA², S. JADON³, N. WAHI⁴, A. SINGH⁵, N. SHARMA^6
1Department of Botany, R.B.S. College, Agra, 282002 U.P., India
²Department of Biotechnology, New Era Research Foundation, Agra, 282007 U.P., India
³Department of Botany, R.B.S. College, Agra, 282002 U.P., India
⁴Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, Mathura, 281406 U.P., India
⁵Department of Botany, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, 282007 U.P., India
⁶Department of Biotechnology, MBD College, Agra, 282007 U.P., India
* Corresponding Author : officervishu@gmail.com

Received : 01-09-2015     Accepted : 24-11-2015     Published : 14-12-2015
Volume : 7     Issue : 13       Pages : 834 - 840
Int J Agr Sci 7.13 (2015):834-840

Keywords : Alternaria, Early blight, Cucurbitaceae, Brassicaceae, Solanaceae
Academic Editor : Ramya B, Dr Kaushal Pratap Singh, Dwivedi Ashish, Vikas Gupta, Kumar Sudhir, Gholamian Asadollah, Si Yong, Jichao Sun
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Sincere and gratitude thanks to Dr. Seema Bhadauria, Associate Professor, R.B.S. College, Agra, for possible help and extraordinary effort during the achievement of this investigation and his guidance and encouragement during the extraordinary effort during this work
Author Contribution : None declared

Vegetables belonging to family Cucurbitaceae, Brassicaceae and Solanaceae are important due to their nutritional and have also cost-effective values. Farmers bearing heavy yield losses both in their quality and quantity of these crops due to various diseases. Diseases caused by Alternaria species are common and are worldwide in their occurrence. The different crops plants as a host viz. apples, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, tomatoes, bok choy, citrus and many plants used as ornamentals and a no. of weeds. These crops inflicted serious damage as a early blight diseases caused by fungal pathogen Alternaria spp. Different Alternaria spp. was found to be associated with various Angiospermic families but A. alternata (with a few morphological differences) usually infects members of these three vegetable providing families. Besides these pathogenic infections are reported due to A. tenuissima and A. cucumerina on cucurbitaceous; A. brassicae, A. brassicicola and A. raphani on brassicaceous and A. solani, A. longipes and A. crassa on solanaceous plants. For controlling the diseases a number of new chemicals were synthesized and evaluated and so also the biological control agents including bacteria, Actinomycetes and fungi. Some plants and plant products were also found to be useful in controlling Alternaria infection.