Bacterial diseases

Bacterial diseases
Gumming disease	Xanthomonas campestris Xanthomonas campestris Xanthomonas campestris is a bacterial species that causes a variety of plant diseases. Available from the NCPPB,and other international Culture collections such as ICMP, ATCC, and LMG in a purified form, it is used in the commercial production of a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide - xanthan... pv. vasculorum
Leaf scald	Xanthomonas albilineans
Mottled stripe	Herbaspirillum rubrisubalbicans
Ratoon stunting disease	Leifsonia xyli Leifsonia Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli is a small, fastidious, Gram-positive, coryneform bacterium that causes ratoon stunting disease, a major worldwide disease of sugarcane.-Classification:... subsp. xyli
Red stripe (top rot)	Acidovorax avenae Acidovorax avenae Acidovorax avenae is a Gram-negative soil bacterium. A. avenae subsp. citrulli is the causal agent of bacterial fruit blotch....

Fungal diseases

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! colspan=2| Fungal diseases

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|Banded sclerotial (leaf) disease
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Thanatephorus cucumeris
Pellicularia sasakii

Rhizoctonia solani

Rhizoctonia solani

Rhizoctonia solani is a plant pathogenic fungus with a wide host range and worldwide distribution. This plant pathogen was discovered more than 100 years ago. Rhizoctonia solani frequently exists as thread-like growth on plants or in culture. Asexual spores are not produced, only the sexual stage...

[anamorph]
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|Black rot
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Ceratocystis adiposa

Ceratocystis adiposa

Ceratocystis adiposa is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Chalara sp. [anamorph]
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|Black stripe
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Cercospora atrofiliformis

Cercospora atrofiliformis

Cercospora atrofiliformis is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :**...

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|Brown spot
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Cercospora longipes

Cercospora longipes

Cercospora longipes is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :**...

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|Brown stripe
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Cochliobolus stenospilus

Cochliobolus stenospilus

Cochliobolus stenospilus is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Bipolaris stenospila [anamorph]
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|Downy mildew
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Peronosclerospora sacchari

Peronosclerospora sacchari

Peronosclerospora sacchari is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Sclerospora sacchari
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|Downy mildew, leaf splitting form
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Peronosclerospora miscanthi

Peronosclerospora miscanthi

Peronosclerospora miscanthi is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Sclerospora mischanthi

Sclerospora mischanthi

Sclerospora mischanthi is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Mycosphaerella striatiformans

Mycosphaerella striatiformans

Mycosphaerella striatiformans is a fungal plant pathogen.-External links:* *...

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|Eye spot
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Bipolaris sacchari

Bipolaris sacchari

Bipolaris sacchari is a plant pathogen that causes root and stem rot in wheat.- External links :* *...

Helminthosporium sacchari
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|Fusarium sett and stem rot
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Gibberella fujikuroi

Gibberella fujikuroi

Gibberella fujikuroi is a fungal plant pathogen. It causes bakanae disease in rice seedlings, by overloading them with the phytohormone gibberellin as its own metabolic byproduct.- External links :* * *...

Fusarium moniliforme [anamorph]

Gibberella subglutinans
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|Iliau
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Clypeoporthe iliau

Clypeoporthe iliau

Clypeoporthe iliau is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Gnomonia iliau

Gnomonia iliau

Gnomonia iliau is a plant pathogen.- External links :**...

Phaeocytostroma iliau

Phaeocytostroma iliau

Phaeocytostroma iliau is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

[anamorph]
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|Leaf blast
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Didymosphaeria taiwanensis

Didymosphaeria taiwanensis

Didymosphaeria taiwanensis is a plant pathogen that causes leaf blast disease of sugarcane.- External links :* *...

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|Leaf blight
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Leptosphaeria taiwanensis

Stagonospora tainanensis

Stagonospora tainanensis

Stagonospora tainanensis is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :**...

[anamorph]
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|Leaf scorch
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Stagonospora sacchari

Stagonospora sacchari

Stagonospora sacchari is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Marasmius sheath and shoot blight
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Marasmiellus stenophyllus

Marasmiellus stenophyllus

Marasmiellus stenophyllus is a plant pathogen that causes Marasmius sheath and shoot blight on sugarcane.- External links :* *...

Marasmius stenophyllus

Marasmius stenophyllus

Marasmius stenophyllus is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Myriogenospora leaf binding (tangle top)
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Myriogenospora aciculispora

Myriogenospora aciculispora

Myriogenospora aciculispora is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Phyllosticta leaf spot
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Phyllosticta hawaiiensis

Phyllosticta hawaiiensis

Phyllosticta hawaiiensis is a plant pathogen.- External links :**...

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|Phytophthora rot of cuttings
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Phytophthora

Phytophthora

Phytophthora is a genus of plant-damaging Oomycetes , whose member species are capable of causing enormous economic losses on crops worldwide, as well as environmental damage in natural ecosystems. The genus was first described by Heinrich Anton de Bary in 1875...

spp.

Phytophthora megasperma

Phytophthora megasperma

Phytophthora megasperma is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Pineapple disease
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Ceratocystis paradoxa

Ceratocystis paradoxa

Ceratocystis paradoxa is a plant pathogen able to cause disease in many species.- External links :* *...

Chalara paradoxa
Thielaviopsis paradoxa [anamorph]
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|Pokkah boeng (that may have knife cut symptoms)
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Gibberella fujikuroi

Gibberella fujikuroi

Gibberella fujikuroi is a fungal plant pathogen. It causes bakanae disease in rice seedlings, by overloading them with the phytohormone gibberellin as its own metabolic byproduct.- External links :* * *...

Fusarium moniliforme [anamorph]

Gibberella subglutinans
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|Red leaf spot (purple spot)
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Dimeriella sacchari

Dimeriella sacchari

Dimeriella sacchari is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Red rot
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Glomerella tucumanensis

Glomerella tucumanensis

Glomerella tucumanensis is a plant pathogen.- External links :* * -References:Duttamajumder, S.K. 2008. Red rot of Sugarcane.IISR, Lucknow, 171pp. www.iisr.nic.in...

Physalospora tucumanensis

Colletotrichum falcatum [anamorph]
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|Red rot of leaf sheath and sprout rot
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Athelia rolfsii

Athelia rolfsii

Athelia rolfsii is a corticioid fungus in the family Atheliaceae. It is a facultative plant pathogen and is the causal agent of "southern blight" disease in crops.-Taxonomy:...

Pellicularia rolfsii

Sclerotium rolfsii [anamorph]
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|Red spot of leaf sheath
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Mycovellosiella vaginae

Mycovellosiella vaginae

Mycovellosiella vaginae is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Cercospora vaginae
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|Rhizoctonia sheath and shoot rot
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Rhizoctonia solani

Rhizoctonia solani

Rhizoctonia solani is a plant pathogenic fungus with a wide host range and worldwide distribution. This plant pathogen was discovered more than 100 years ago. Rhizoctonia solani frequently exists as thread-like growth on plants or in culture. Asexual spores are not produced, only the sexual stage...

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|Rind disease (sour rot)
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Phaeocytostroma sacchari

Phaeocytostroma sacchari

Phaeocytostroma sacchari is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Melanconium sacchari
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|Ring spot
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Leptosphaeria sacchari

Leptosphaeria sacchari

Leptosphaeria sacchari is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Phyllosticta

Phyllosticta

Phyllosticta is a genus of fungi. Many of the species in this genus are plant pathogens.-Species:*Phyllosticta aberiae*Phyllosticta abietis*Phyllosticta abortiva*Phyllosticta abramovii*Phyllosticta abricola...

sp. [anamorph]
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|Root rots
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Marasmius sacchari

Marasmius sacchari

Marasmius sacchari is a fungal plant pathogen which has been identified as causing root rot of Sugar Cane.- External links :* *...

Pythium arrhenomanes

Pythium arrhenomanes

Pythium arrhenomanes is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Pythium graminicola

Pythium graminicola

Pythium graminicola is a plant pathogen.- External links :**...

Rhizoctonia

Rhizoctonia

Rhizoctonia is a genus of anamorphic fungi in the order Cantharellales. Species do not produce spores, but are composed of hyphae and sclerotia and are asexual states of fungi in the genus Thanatephorus. Rhizoctonia species are saprotrophic, but are also facultative plant pathogens, causing...

sp.

Unidentified Oomycete
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|Rust, common
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Puccinia melanocephala

Puccinia melanocephala

Puccinia melanocephala is a plant pathogen, it is the causal agent of sugarcane rust.It was used as a biological weapon by the USA in Cuba during the 1970s.- External links :* *...

Puccinia erianthi

Puccinia erianthi

Puccinia erianthi is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Rust, orange
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Puccinia kuehnii

Puccinia kuehnii

Puccinia kuehnii is a plant pathogen that causes orange rust disease of sugarcane. Orange rust was discovered in 2007 in Florida and has so far been the only state in the United States where sugarcane has been affected by this kind of rust. In order to treat the infected sugarcane at least three...

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|Schizophyllum rot
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Schizophyllum commune

Schizophyllum commune

Schizophyllum commune is a very common species of mushroom in the genus Schizophyllum. It is the world's most widely distributed mushroom, occurring on every continent except Antarctica....

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|Sclerophthora disease
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Sclerophthora macrospora

Sclerophthora macrospora

Sclerophthora macrospora is a plant pathogen.- External links :**...

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|Seedling blight
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Alternaria alternata

Alternaria alternata

Alternaria alternata has been recorded causing leaf spot and other diseases on over 380 host species. It is opportunistic pathogen on numerous hosts causing leaf spots, rots and blights on many plant parts...

Bipolaris sacchari

Bipolaris sacchari

Bipolaris sacchari is a plant pathogen that causes root and stem rot in wheat.- External links :* *...

Cochliobolus hawaiiensis

Cochliobolus hawaiiensis

Cochliobolus hawaiiensis is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Bipolaris hawaiiensis [anamorph]

Cochliobolus lunatus

Cochliobolus lunatus

Cochliobolus lunatus is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Curvularia lunata [anamorph]

Curvularia senegalensis

Curvularia senegalensis

Curvularia senegalensis is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Setosphaeria rostrata

Setosphaeria rostrata

Setosphaeria rostrata is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Exserohilum rostratum [anamorph]
Drechslera halodes
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|Sheath rot
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Cytospora sacchari

Cytospora sacchari

Cytospora sacchari is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Smut, culmicolous

Sugarcane smut

Sugarcane smut is a fungal disease of sugarcane caused by the fungus Sporisorium scitamineum. It is sometimes known as culmicolous, which describes the outgrowth of fungus of the stalk of the cane. It attacks several sugarcane species and has been reported to occur on a few other grass species as...

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Ustilago scitaminea
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|Target blotch
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Helminthosporium sp.
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|Veneer blotch
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Deightoniella papuana

Deightoniella papuana

Deightoniella papuana is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|White rash
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Elsinoë sacchari

Elsinoë sacchari

Elsinoe sacchari is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Sphaceloma sacchari

Sphaceloma sacchari

Sphaceloma sacchari is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

[anamorph]
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|Wilt
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Fusarium sacchari

Fusarium sacchari

Fusarium sacchari is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Miscellaneous diseases and disorders

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|Bud proliferation
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|Bunch top
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|Cluster stool
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|Internal stalk necrosis
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|Leaf freckle
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|Leaf stipple
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|Multiple buds
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|Stem galls
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Nematodes, parasitic

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|Lesion
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Pratylenchus

Pratylenchus

Pratylenchus is a genus of plant-parasitic nematodes responsible for root lesions on many plant hosts in temperate regions around the world. Lesion nematodes are migratory endoparasites that enter the host root for feeding and reproduction and move freely through or out of the root tissue. They do...

spp.
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|Root-knot
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Meloidogyne spp.
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|Spiral
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Helicotylenchus

Helicotylenchus

Helicotylenchus is a genus of nematodes in the family Hoplolaimidae.-Diagnosis:Hoplolaimidae. Female : Body vermiform, spiral to straight. Labial region continuous to slightly offset, rounded or anteriorly flattened, generally annulated but never longitudinally striated; anterior lip annulus...

spp.

Rotylenchus spp.

Scutellonema spp.
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Viral diseases

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! colspan=2| Viral diseases

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|Chlorotic streak
||Virus (assumed)
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|Dwarf
||Sugarcane dwarf virus
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|Fiji disease
||Sugarcane Fiji disease virus
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|Mosaic
||Sugarcane mosaic virus

Sugarcane mosaic virus

Sugarcane mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**...

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|Sereh
||Virus (assumed)
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|Streak disease
||Maize streak virus

Maize streak virus

Maize streak virus is an insect-transmitted maize pathogen in the genus Mastrevirus of the family Geminiviridae that is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The A-strain of MSV causes sporadic maize streak disease epidemics throughout the maize growing regions of Africa...

, sugarcane strain
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|Yellow Leaf
||Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus
|-stem canker
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Phytoplasma diseases

Phytoplasma

Phytoplasma

Phytoplasma are specialised bacteria that are obligate parasites of plant phloem tissue and transmitting insects . They were first discovered by scientists in 1967 and were named mycoplasma-like organisms or MLOs. They cannot be cultured in vitro in cell-free media...

s were previously known as 'mycoplasma-like organisms' (MLOs).

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! colspan=2| Phytoplasma diseases

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| Grassy Shoot

Sugarcane Grassy Shoot Disease

Sugarcane grassy shoot disease , caused by small, parasitic bacteria, contributes to losses of 5% to 20% in the main crop of sugarcane, and these losses are higher in the ratoon crop...

 (SCGS),
Leaf Chlorosis,
Early Bud Sprouting,

|| Sugarcane Grassy Shoot Phytoplasma

Phytoplasma

Phytoplasma are specialised bacteria that are obligate parasites of plant phloem tissue and transmitting insects . They were first discovered by scientists in 1967 and were named mycoplasma-like organisms or MLOs. They cannot be cultured in vitro in cell-free media...

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External links

• Common Names of Diseases: Sugarcane diseases, The American Phytopathological Society
• List of Sugarcane Diseases, Ikisan agricultural portal
• Diseases in Sugarcane, Sugarcane Handbook, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences