Bacterial Wilt or Moko disease (Pseudomonas solanacearum (Ralstonia solanacearum))

Symptoms

• Young plants are severely affected.
• Yellowish discolouration of the inner leaf lamina close to the petiole.
• The pulp turns into a very characteristic dark brown colour.
• If the diseased suckers are planted, terminal leaf becomes necrotic and the plant dies.
• Infected young sword suckers show wilting and blackening.
• Slimy drops of bacterial ooze which is greyish brown in colour appears at the transverse cut end of the pseudostem.

Management

• Avoid furrow irrigation and follow basin irrigation.
• Use disease free planting material.
• Remove Heliconia spp. and other weeds from the field and nearby area.
• Spread 10 % fresh cow dung slurry (100 gram/litre of water) in the banana basin.