Claim · model-written summary
Microscopy of budwood and pod stalk sections provided a precaution against cocoa disease transmission.
- Taxon
- Cocoa
Theobroma cacaot0 - Organ / stage
- budwood sticks and pod stalkse0
- Outcome
- precaution against disease transmissione0
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Verbatim
t0“Cocoa”
e0“Microscopic examination of transverse sections of budwood sticks and pod stalks provides a further very thorough precaution against disease transmission because hyphae of the pathogen are large and easily detected”
Title
Cocoa quarantine: measures to prevent the spread of vascular‐streak dieback in planting material
C. PRIOR Plant Pathology 1985. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.1985.tb01412.x
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Six months in screened shade houses permitted detection of vascular-streak dieback in clonal cocoa.
- Observation Hyphae occurred in stalks and placentae of pods from diseased cocoa branches.
- Observation Seeds from diseased cocoa branches germinated normally.
- Observation No cocoa seed transmission was found.
- Intervention effect Fungicide dipping slightly reduced cocoa seedling stem height.
- Intervention effect The seed treatment did not affect cocoa root length or germination percentage.
- Recommendation The authors suggest prophylactic seed treatment where quarantine authorities require added precautions.