Green Global
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TOMATO LEAF CURL DISEASE DEVELOPMENT AND ITS MANAGEMENT WITH STICKY YELLOW TRAP (Pages : 16 - 21)

To elucidate the pattern of tomato leaf curl disease development and assess the efficacy sticky yellow trap an experiment was conducted in the nethouse of the Department of Plant Pathology, Sylhet Agricultural University, Syhlet during December 2017 to May 2018. Disease progress pattern varied significantly in control and the plants where trap was used. Disease was first appeared at two weeks after transplanting and reached the highest level after 4 weeks. At the initial stage only upper two leaves were infected and showed disease symptom which covered around 8.7% of the foliage. After two weeks disease incidence rose to 29.8% and after 4 weeks symptoms were observed in the whole plant. Mainly three types of insects: aphid, whitefly and thrips were captured on the trap. Employing of sticky traps delayed leaf curl incidence by two weeks and reduced the disease incidence by 31%. Yield was increased significantly due to application of yellow sticky trap. Download