Kartar Singh, Hemavati Ranebennur, Kirti Rawat, Vijay Singh Meena, Manoj Choudhary, Vasimalla Celia Chalam, Ashutosh Rao, Neelam Shekhawat, Bharat Raj Meena, Mahavir Prasad Chawala, Manoj Sharma, Dama Ram, Gyanendra Pratap Singh
Moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia), a drought and heat-resistant legume from the Fabaceae family, is commonly cultivated in arid and semi-arid regions of the Indian subcontinent In September 2022, phyllody symptoms (Figure 1) were observed on 50-days-old moth bean plants at the ICAR-NBPGR research farm in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. The disease incidence ranged from 10 to 25%. To investigate the cause, ten symptomatic VacoJod (1-10) and ten asymptomatic VacoJod (11-20) Vigna aconitifolia plants were collected. Insect populations were also collected from the vicinity using the sweep-net method to examine the role of insect vectors...
December 15, 2023: Plant Disease