Sugarcane Grassy Shoot Disease
Phytoplasma sp.
Sugarcanebacterial
A leafhopper-transmitted phytoplasma disease causing excessive, stunted, grass-like tillering.
Symptoms
Excessive, thin, pale, grass-like tillering with severely stunted growth.
Favorable conditions
- •Leafhopper vector activity
- •Infected seed cane
Management
- 1Use disease-free (tissue-culture or heat-treated) seed cane
- 2Control leafhopper vectors
- 3Rogue infected clumps
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