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Alternaria Diseases of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

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Alternaria blight of crucifers occurs and develops in the epidemic form under the combination of a number of factors including availability of susceptible host cultivars, source of virulent pathogen inoculum in the vicinity, and favourable environmental and cultural conditions. Temperature range of 15–25 °C, relative humidity >90 %, wind velocity of 2–5 km/h, and intermittent rains are the most abiotic conducive conditions for development of Alternaria blight under field conditions. In addition, closer spacing of 30 × 15 cm, high doses of nitrogen (>80 kg/ha), frequent irrigation and growing of susceptible cultivars further rapidly increase the disease severity in rapeseed–mustard. The disease progression under field conditions as influenced by environmental conditions and dates of sowing has been measured through the development of models. Disease forecasting models have been developed taking into account the leaf wetness period; number of rainy days; minimum, maximum and optimum temperatures and relative humidity; date of sowing; variety and species of Brassica crops grown under different agro-ecological conditions.

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    Govind Singh Saharan & Naresh Mehta

  2. Crop Protection Unit, ICAR, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India

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Singh Saharan, G., Mehta, N., Meena, P.D. (2016). Epidemiology and Forecasting. In: Alternaria Diseases of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0021-8_5

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