Occurrence of major fungal and bacterial diseases onstone fruits in Duhok province, Kurdistan region, Iraq

Joint Authors

Tahir, Ibrahim Isa
Ami, Sulayman Nayif
Said, Salah Adil
Salih, Farhad M. T.
Halim, Raid Abd al-Jabbar

Source

مجلة جامعة دهوك

Publisher

University of Duhok

Publication Date

2016-06-30

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

9

Main Subjects

Agriculture

English Abstract

During spring 2013 to autumn 2014, systematic survey of diseased stone fruit trees was carried out in orchards of Duhok province, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

Bacterial canker & gummosis was the most common bacterial disease observed on peach and apricot in (41) and (17) locations by the incidence rate of 27.7% and 34.41% respectively.

On plum, almond and cherry disease was also occurred in 7, 5, 1 locations, respectively.

Shot hole was second more common disease, where recorded on peach, apricot, plum, almond and cherry in 17, 10, 4, 3 and 1 location while disease incidence reached 20.95, 36.25, 53.7, 22.5 and 70% respectively.

The major fungal diseases recorded during this study were peach leaves curl observed in 4 locations on peach with moderate infection & one location in apricot with slightly infection and powdery mildew recorded on peach.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-797916

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