Tobacco plant diseases

Tobacco is an important commercial crop cultivated in an area of 0.4 million ha producing annually around 700 million kg of cured leaf out of which 260 M kg is Flue-Cured Virginia tobacco (cigarette type). India is the 3^rd largest producer of tobacco in the world after China and Brazil.There are various tobacco plant diseases which need to be taken care off to protect your crop.

Major Tobacco plant diseases are:-

S.No.	Tobacco plant diseases
1.	Damping off: Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium debaryanum
2.	Anthracnose: Colletotrichum tabacum
3.	Black shank: Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae
4.	Tobacco Powdery Mildew: Erisiphe cichoracearum var nicotiane
5.	Frog Eye Leaf Spot: Cercospora nicotianae
6.	Brown Spot: Alternaria longipes, Alternaria tenuis, Alternaria alternata
7.	Mosaic: Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)
8.	Leaf Curl : Tobacco leaf curl virus
9.	Orobanche- Flowering parasite

Source-

• TamilNadu Agritech Portal