Nutritional status of soils and the incidence of "bunchy top" disease of banana (var. Java)

Abstract

All the plants in the control contracted the disease earlier than the treated plants. The uptake of N by the plant decreased with increasing levels of Ca & Ms There was an increase in the N content of leaves after the incidence of the dsease. The present studies have indicated that the CaO-)-MgO/K2O in the plant tissue exerts some influence on the resistance of the tissue to infection by the Bunchy top virus.