Tikka Disease of GroundNuT
Presented By : Gamit Abhaykumar
Bsc Botany
Paper 502
Roll No. :4
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Groundnut is the most important oilseed crop of India
The Total area under ground nut is about 8 million
hectares.
Tikka disease is the major disease of groundnut in India.
It occurs in every state in India and in every ground of
nutgrowing countries of the world.
In Uttar Pradesh, the disease is locally know as chitwa or
haldai.
The Casual Organisms
The causal organism for the tikka disease of ground
nut are Cercospora personata and Cercospora
arachidicola.
The Symptoms caused by the two pathogens will
differ.
This disease is also called Leaf spot of Ground
nut because it causes.Leaf spots on the leaves.
Symptoms
Thefirst symptom of both the leaf spots is the appearance of
pale areas on the upper surface of older leaves.
As the lesions develop the two species can be distinguished.
Cercospora arachidicola causes Early leaf spot, which is
distinguished by the appearance of brown spots with a yellow
halo that are few in number and small in size.
Cercosporapersonata causes Late leaf spot, which is identified by
the appearance of black spots that are common, more in number
and potentially more damaging.
About Pathogen
Classification:
• Kingdom: Fungi
• Division : Ascomycota
• Class: Dothideomycetidae
• Order: Capnodiales
• Family : Mycosphaerellaceae
• Genus: Cercospora
Cercospora arachidicola lacks haustoria.
Cercospora personata contains branched haustoria.
Cercospora reproduces only by means of
conidia. A tuft of conidiophores emerge either
through stomata or ruptured epidermis.
Conidiophores are hyaline to dark brown,
septate or aseptate, straight or flexuous
Conidia are long cylindrical, obclavate, multi-
septate (tranverse septa), hyaline or brownish
in colour .
The conidia are disseminated by wind or rain
splash. Under suitable conditions (24-28°C
temperature) conidia germinate by giving rise
to one or more germ tubes. Each germ tube
Favourable Factors
1..Relative humidity is the most important
factor for infection.. A period of three days
of high humidity is essential for maximum
infection.
2..Prolonged low temperature
3.. Heavy dew.
4..Usage of nitrogen and phosphatefertilizers
• Control measure
The early infections of tikka disease can be managed by the following ways,
which includes:
1..Crop rotation
2..Eradication of infected plants by burning or burying them in deep pits.
3.. The seeds of groundnut that are within the shells can be disinfected with
sulphuric acid, and those are without the shell can be treated for half an hour
with 0.5% of copper sulphate solution.
4.. Use of fungicides controls the disease.
1..Which of the following causes Tikka disease of groundnut ?
(a) Cercospora personata (C) Penicillium
Mcq’s (b) Cercospora arachidicola. (D) A & B Both
2..Tika Disease is which kind of disease ?
(c) Bacterial. (C) Fungi
(d) Virus. (D) Algae
3. Tikka disease Is Related With the crop..
(e) Rice. (C) corn
(f) Groundnut. (D) wheat
4.Which fungi contain branched haustoria ?
(a) Cercospora perconata (c) Cercospora arachidicola
(b) penicillium expencum (d) cercospora expencum
5.Genus ; cercospora division ; __________
(a) Ascomycuya (c) basidiomycota
(b) Duteromycota (d)bryophyta
Thank you
