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Agriculture · Q479

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 479

Q479

Early blight of potato produces

A.
Conidia
Answer
B.
Telia
C.
Uredia
D.
Acecia

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Early blight of potato produces Conidia.
Conidium is a type of asexual reproductive spore of fungi usually produced at the tip or side of hyphae or on special spore-producing structures called conidiophores.
Early blight of potatoes is caused by the fungal pathogen Alternaria solani. The disease affects leaves, stems, and tubers and can reduce yield, tuber size, storability of tubers, quality of fresh-market and processing tubers, and marketability of the crop.