1/9/2024 0 Comments Late blight 2012In Pakistan, the majority of the people consume less than one tuber a day while in Europe and other part of the world like South America potato crop is more significant than cereals consumed as a staple food ( Haq et al., 2008). Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the fourth most significant food crop across the world after wheat, rice and corn ( Nowicki et al., 2013 Abbas et al., 2016). Moreover, disease incidence and severity seems to be varied from region to region and location to location depending on the prevailing environmental conditions, soil type, prevailing of different mating types and the vulnerability of the crop under plantation. The results clearly depicted that this disease is present in all the surveyed districts of the Punjab during both years with varying intensities. Similarly, disease severity ranging from 19.3-16.1% and 21.1-17.4% during the year 20 was recorded with Okara recording the maximum (21.1%) and Sahiwal the lowest blight severity (16.1%). During 20, prevalence of disease in all the surveyed districts ranging between 34.6-24.4% and 39.3-28.6% respectively with district Okara recording the maximum (39.3%) and district Jhang the minimum incidence (24.4%) for both the years. A total of six districts comprising of three locations in each district were surveyed for the collection of late blight infected samples. Abstract | A survey on the incidence and severity of late blight ( Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary) of potato was conducted in the major potato growing areas of Punjab viz., Khushab, Sargodha, Sahiwal, Okara, Jhang and Chiniot districts during the cropping seasons of 2016-2017.
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