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Rhododendron gall disease

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Symptoms: it can harm the twigs, shoots and leaves of rhododendron. After the injury of the leaf, the margin or the whole leaf was swollen and hypertrophic, showing tumor-like or hemispherical fleshy gall. After the twig was damaged, it also swelled and thickened into fleshy galls, affecting the shoot. After the flower is damaged, the white powdery mildew layer appears on the petal surface or depression, that is, the seed layer of the pathogen. In the later stage, the galls turned brown and withered and fell off. Pathogens and disease status: pathogens: hemispherical epidiomycetes Exobasidiumhemisphaer-icumShirai, basidiomycetes subphylum, stromatomycetes, exophytes

Symptoms: it can harm the twigs, shoots and leaves of rhododendron. After the injury of the leaf, the margin or the whole leaf was swollen and hypertrophic, showing tumor-like or hemispherical fleshy gall. After the twig was damaged, it also swelled and thickened into fleshy galls, affecting the shoot. After the flower is damaged, the white powdery mildew layer appears on the petal surface or depression, that is, the seed layer of the pathogen. In the later stage, the galls turned brown and withered and fell off.

Pathogen and morbidity status:

Pathogens: hemispherical exobasitic bacteria Exobasidiumhemisphaer-icumShirai, basidiomycetes subphylum, stromatomycetes, exobaromycetes.

The law of the disease: the mycelium overwintered on the remains, and the basidiospores began to be produced when the average temperature rose to about 10 degrees Celsius and the relative humidity reached more than 80% in the following year. Basidiospores spread with wind and rain, infecting young leaves, shoots or petals. Half a month later, the disease department began to change color and wither, and the diseased leaves withered and fell off completely in about 25 days. The peak period of the first incidence was from late March to the first and middle of April, and the second peak was in late September.

Prevention and control measures:

1. Disease-resistant varieties were selected.

2. The diseased tissue was removed and destroyed in spring and autumn, and the remains of the rhododendron garden were removed and destroyed in time in winter.

3. In the first ten days of March and the middle of September, spray 15% chlorpheniramine wettable powder 1500 times liquid, or 80% Dysen zinc wettable powder liquid, or 50% bacillus special wettable powder liquid.

 
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