{"id":7090,"date":"2023-04-02T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T05:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:27:00","slug":"what-is-chondrostereum-purpureum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-chondrostereum-purpureum\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Chondrostereum Purpureum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Chondrostereum Purpureum:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>plant fungus<\/strong> that c<strong>auses silver leaf disease in plants<\/strong>, particularly those in the rose family.<\/li>\n<li>It is commonly <strong>found in temperate regions of the northern and southern hemispheres.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>attacks most species of the rose family <\/strong>Rosaceae, particularly the genus Prunus.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>often found on old stumps and dead wood<\/strong>, but can also be a serious parasite of living trees.<\/li>\n<li>The disease is progressive and <strong>often fatal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>spread by airborne spores<\/strong> landing on freshly exposed sapwood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is silver leaf disease?<\/h3>\n<p>Silver leaf is a fungal disease of the wood and leaves of some trees, especially plums, apples, apricots and cherries. The fungus infects the wood through wounds and causes a silvering of the leaves followed by death of the branch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/new-updates\/kolkata-man-catches-potentially-deadly-plant-disease-first-such-case-in-world\/articleshow\/99163436.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Kolkata man catches potentially deadly plant disease; first such case in worldKolkata man catches potentially deadly plant disease; first such case in world<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chondrostereum Purpureum is a plant fungus that causes silver leaf disease in plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7090","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\/7090","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=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}