The influence of thermotherapy in treating CMD in the field and under etiological scenes in the Central African Republic is examined in this place paper's findings. Finding low-cost, surely implemented management methods that may should popular in rural domains received distinctive consideration. Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is one of ultimate important root staple crops. An supposed 30% of Zambians, over 4 million folk, consume cassava as part of their routine diet. Cassava is mostly grown by ration farmers on fields of inferior 1 ha. Cultivation of cassava is hampered by several natural constraints, of that cassava mosaic disease (CMD) is now the most important determinant limiting cassava result. The most significant biotic disadvantage, cassava mosaic disease (CMD), considerably lowers production. According to sure research, thermotherapy can be used to manage CMD in Africa. Diseased cassava cutting were treated in a angry water bath at temperatures varying from 43°C to 51°C for 30 min before being grown for 12 months engaged. Temperatures from 43°C to 49°C were found to have no damaging effect on either the survival of cuttings or on plant conversion. One month after setting (MAP), up to 40% of the cutting treated at 47°C to 49°C had regenerated a plant with no CMD manifestations compared to 7% of untreated cutting. Between two and five MAP, cassava cuttings discussed at 49°C produced plants with a considerably lower incidence of CMD than plants presented from untreated cuttings. All plants mature from treated cuttings grown significantly less harsh CMD symptoms than untreated cutting between 8 and 12 months after establishiing. The highest tuberous root yield was got with diseased cutting treated at 49°C (4.7 kg/plant), equivalent to the yield from not cooked symptomless cuttings (4.6 kg/plant). Our data certainly demonstrate the value of thermotherapy to assert a high level of result using local cultivars under severe CMD epidemic environments.
Author(s) Details:
Innocent Zinga,
CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, Plant Protection Center, 97410 Saint-Pierre,
Reunion Island, France and Laboratory of Biological and Agricultural Sciences
for Development (LBSAD), University of Bangui, BP908 Bangui, Central African
Republic and University of Reunion, UMR PVBMT, Plant Protection Center, 97410
Saint-Pierre, Reunion Island, France.
Frédéric Chiroleu,
CIRAD, UMR
PVBMT, Plant Protection Center, 97410 Saint-Pierre, Reunion Island, France.
Emmanuel Kamba,
Laboratory of Biological and Agricultural Sciences for Development
(LBSAD), University of Bangui, BP908 Bangui, Central African Republic.
Charlotte Giraud-Carrier,
CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, Plant Protection Center, 97410 Saint-Pierre,
Reunion Island, France.
Mireille Harimalala,
CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, Plant Protection Center, 97410 Saint-Pierre,
Reunion Island, France.
Ephrem Kosh Komba,
Laboratory
of Biological and Agricultural Sciences for Development (LBSAD), University of
Bangui, BP908 Bangui, Central African Republic.
Simplice Yandia,
Laboratory of Biological and Agricultural Sciences for Development
(LBSAD), University of Bangui, BP908 Bangui, Central African Republic.
Silla Semballa,
Laboratory of Biological and Agricultural Sciences for Development
(LBSAD), University of Bangui, BP908 Bangui, Central African Republic.
Bernard Reynaud,
CIRAD,
UMR PVBMT, Plant Protection Center, 97410 Saint-Pierre, Reunion Island, France.
Jacques Dintinger,
CIRAD,
UMR PVBMT, Plant Protection Center, 97410 Saint-Pierre, Reunion Island, France.
Pierre Lefeuvre,
CIRAD, UMR
PVBMT, Plant Protection Center, 97410 Saint-Pierre, Reunion Island, France.
Jean-Michel Lett,
CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, Plant Protection Center, 97410
Saint-Pierre, Reunion Island, France.
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