{"id":129768,"date":"2026-10-20T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=129768"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:51:17","slug":"bud-rot-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bud-rot-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Bud Rot Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bud Rot Disease Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coconut growers of Tiptur taluk, Tumakuru district, Karnataka, are worried as coconut trees are increasingly affected by Bud Rot Disease causing their crowns to break and fall off.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bud Rot Disease<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>fatal disease of the coconut palm<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, characterized by the <\/span><b>rotting of the terminal bud <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>surrounding tissues.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It affects the palms of all ages, but <\/span><b>young palms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are found to be <\/span><b>most vulnerable.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>caused <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the<\/span><b> fungus Phytophthora palmivora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which attacks the growing point of the coconut palm.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the growing point is attacked, the palm is beyond recovery.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The incidence is found to be<\/span><b> severe during the monsoon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when the relative humidity is high.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the <\/span><b>onset of dry weather,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the infection becomes less severe, and the <\/span><b>fungus remains dormant <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the leaf base.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The disease is <\/span><b>often seen in river banks <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subject to flooding. Normally, the disease is observed sporadically in <\/span><b>widely scattered palms.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Symptoms:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In seedlings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>earlier symptom<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the <\/span><b>yellowing <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of one or two<\/span><b> younger leaves.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Basal tissues of the leaf rot quickly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>can be easily pulled out<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the crown.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the later stages the spindle withers and drops down.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>tender leaf base <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and soft tissues <\/span><b>of the crown rot <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">into a slimy mass of decayed material<\/span><b> emitting a foul smell.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Ultimately <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>entire crown falls down, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>palm dies.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In adult palms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the first visible symptom is the <\/span><b>colour change of the spear,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which <\/span><b>becomes pale <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>breaks at the base<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and hangs down.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>rotting slowly progresses downwards, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">finally affecting the meristem and <\/span><b>killing the palms.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is accompanied by<\/span><b> drooping of successive leaves<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Even then, nuts that are retained on the palm may grow to maturity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The disease proves <\/span><b>fatal if not checked at the early stages,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> before damage of the bud.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Management: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because it can be fatal, management is about early detection and prompt action: <\/span><b>cleaning out the rotted tissue, applying copper paste\/fungicide (Bordeaux paste) to the wound and bud,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>prophylactic crown sprays of neighbouring palms <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">before and during the wet season. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/karnataka\/coconut-growers-worried-as-bud-rot-disease-threatens-trees-4188554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>DH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bud Rot Disease is a fatal disease of the coconut palm, characterized by the rotting of the terminal bud and the surrounding tissues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":129803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11006],"class_list":["post-129768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-bud-rot-disease","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129818,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129768\/revisions\/129818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}