{"id":28151,"date":"2024-11-21T03:53:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28151"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:07:54","slug":"candidatus-phytoplasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/candidatus-phytoplasma\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidatus Phytoplasma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Candidatus Phytoplasma:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a microbe with a cell wall lacking <strong>Mollicutes bacteria<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/bacteria\/\" target=\"_blank\">bacteria<\/a> thrive in the <strong>nutrient-rich phloem<\/strong> and sieve cells of plants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission:<\/strong> The transmission of these pathogens takes place <strong>primarily through phloem feeder<\/strong> insects (leafhoppers, plant-hoppers, psyllids, and dodders), which are known to infect many commercially valuable crops like Catharanthus, tobacco, maize, and grapevine.<\/li>\n<li>The manifestations of the disease are disfigurement and virescence of the floral parts, giving a leafy appearance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Sesame<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is the oldest <strong>indigenous oilseed crop<\/strong>, with the longest history of cultivation in India.<\/li>\n<li>Sesame or gingelli is commonly known as til (Hindi, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali, Marathi), tal (Gujarati), nuvvulu, manchi nuvvulu (Telugu), ellu (Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada).<\/li>\n<li>It is a primordial oilseed crop since the remnants of sesame seeds were discovered at Harappa and Mohenjodaro.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate Requirement:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Sesame is grown in almost all the states in large or small areas. It can be cultivated up to the latitude of 1600m (India 1200 m).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Temperature:<\/strong> Normally the optimum temperature required during its life cycle is <strong>between 25-35 0C.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If the temperature is more than 40 0C with hot winds the oil content reduces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Soil:<\/strong> Sesame can be grown on a wide range of soils, however well <strong>drained light to medium textured soils<\/strong> are preferred. It does best on sandy loams with adequate moisture.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate:<\/strong> Semi arid climate of Western India, Central, Eastern and Southern part of India including lower Himalayas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Season :<\/strong> It is cultivated during <strong>Kharif in arid<\/strong> and semi-arid tropics and rabi\/summer in cooler areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The crop is grown in almost all parts of the country. More than 85% production of sesame comes from <strong>West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses:<\/strong> Sesame oil is excellent from a medicinal point of view. It <strong>contains antioxidants<\/strong>, and it is perfect for heart patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Bacteria?<\/h3>\n<p>These are microscopic single-celled prokaryotic organisms that play a crucial role in the ecosystem and have a significant impact on human health. Bacteria can be found all over the world, including the top of the mountains or the deeper trenches in the oceans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2075043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Microbe reverting sesame flowers to vegetative state identified<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidatus Phytoplasma is a microbe with a cell wall lacking Mollicutes bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}