Crop Diseases Caused by Bacteria

Crop Diseases Caused by Bacteria  :




Among the most common infections in agriculture are crop diseases caused by bacteria. In this regard, the prevention and control of this kind of disease are pretty tricky.

To infect the causal agent needs to get into the culture’s tissue. It occurs mainly through damaged areas, such as caused by agricultural tools, insects (fleas), or simply unfavorable weather conditions (dust, wind, heavy rain). But bacteria can also infect plants through natural holes or glands (for example, which secrete nectar).

Another feature of bacterial crop diseases is that causal agents, once in a plant or soil, can remain dormant for a long time until favorable conditions arise for them. First of all, significant temperature fluctuations and high levels of humidity act as catalysts for bacterial activity.

Symptoms Of Bacterial Crop Diseases :

The main bacterial disease indications include vascular wilting, necrosis, soft rot and tumor.

Although this type of plant disease can be identified due to its pronounced symptoms, identifying a specific causal agent requires laboratory methods.


Common Bacterial Diseases :

As noted earlier, due to a huge number of bacteria, there are many disease types. Here are some examples of the most common diseases of crop plants:

Granville wilt exposes itself in growth retardation, wilting of the high culture’s part, and the death of roots.

Fire blight symptoms include necrotic weeping ulcers, wilting and rolling of leaves, while the dried parts of a plant do not fall off.

Wildfire of tobacco is widespread in the world and shows itself as yellowish-green spots on leaves.


Control Measures :

It is complicated to control bacterial diseases of crop plants for several reasons: high spreading rate and protection from exposure to chemicals due to being inside the plants. Preventive measures may include using pathogen-free seeds produced in drought-prone regions, hot water for seed treatment, soil solarization, control of plant diseases with germicidal compounds of seeds.                            
          

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