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Diseases caused by P.nicotianae   in Pineapple
 
Base rot
Heart rot
Leaf rot
Stem rot
Pineapple
 Kingdom Plantae
DivisionMagnoliophyta
ClassLiliopsida
Order
Family Bromeliaceae
Sub family
GenusAnanas
SpeciesA.comosus
Binomial NameAnanas comosus

The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant and its fruit, native to Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. The plant is a bromeliad (family Bromeliaceae), a short, herbaceous perennial with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves 30-100 cm long, surrounding a thick stem. The leaves of the Smooth Cayenne cultivar mostly lack spines except at the leaf tip, but


Species infecting Pineapple
P.cactorum
P.cinnamomi
P.meadii
P.nicotianae
P.palmivora
 
Designed and Developed by: Alias E., Shaji A., M. Anandaraj and S.J. Eapen, Bioinformatics Centre, IISR, Calicut.