Investigations on viral and fungal diseases of vanilla
Crop(s)
Vanilla
Start year
2003
Closed
End year
2008
Investigators
Name
Man-months
A Ishwara Bhat
20
R Suseela Bhai
7
M N Venugopal
6
C N Biju
6
Objectives
To find out etiology of viral and fungal
diseaes.
To develop sensitive diagnostics against
viral dieseas
To evolve suitable integrated disease
management strategy for fungal diseases
Research Papers
Bhat, A.I., Bhadramurthy, V., Siju, S. and Hareesh, P.S. 2006. Detection and
identification of Cymbidium mosaic virus infecting vanilla (Vanilla planifolia
Andrews) in India based on coat protein gene sequence relationships. J. Plant
Biochemistry & Biotechnology, 15: 33-37.