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    The document discusses leaf curl of cotton, a viral disease caused by the cotton leaf curl virus and transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. Symptoms include stunted, twisted plants with small, curled leaves displaying thickened veins and enations. The disease reduces fruit production. Management strategies include growing resistant hybrid varieties, controlling the whitefly vector with insecticide sprays, and removing infected plants before fruiting.

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    The document discusses leaf curl of cotton, a viral disease caused by the cotton leaf curl virus and transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. Symptoms include stunted, twisted plants with small, curled leaves displaying thickened veins and enations. The disease reduces fruit production. Management strategies include growing resistant hybrid varieties, controlling the whitefly vector with insecticide sprays, and removing infected plants before fruiting.

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    The document discusses leaf curl of cotton, a viral disease caused by the cotton leaf curl virus and transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. Symptoms include stunted, twisted plants with small, curled leaves displaying thickened veins and enations. The disease reduces fruit production. Management strategies include growing resistant hybrid varieties, controlling the whitefly vector with insecticide sprays, and removing infected plants before fruiting.

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    LEAF CURL OF

    COTTON
    Viral Disease
    OCCURRENCE
     Pakistan and Western India
    SYMPTOMS
     Diseased plants become stunted and have
    twisted internodes.
     Leaves = small & shows cupping & curling.
     Veins on the lower side of leaf become thick
    & shows netted appearence,.
     Small leaflets (enations) also developed on
    the main as well as on lateral veins/
     No. of fruiting bodies get reduced.
    PATHOGEN
     Cotton leaf curl virus.
     Transmitted by white fly (Bemisica tabaci)
     Not seed borne.
     White fly in larval stage can acquire the virus
    & transmits it into adult stage.
     Incubation period = 20-30 days.
    MANAGEMENT
     Hybrid LHH144 & desi cotton var, are
    resistent.
     Avoid growing of American cotton in &
    around citrus orchads & bhindi crop
     In American cotton use 4 Kg of seed/ac & go
    on uprooting & destroying the infected plants
    up to initiation of fruiting stage.
     Protect the crop again white fly vector at 4-5
    leaf stage with spray of
     300ml of Metasystox in 100 L of water/ac.
     Destroy weed hosts

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