Diseases of cumin (A Review)
Diseases of cumin (A Review)
Shahida Parveen and Zakaullah
ABSTRACT
Cumin (Cuminum cvminum), an annual low growing herb native of Egypt and Syria, is now widely grown in India and on a small scale in some parts of Pakistan. Its fruit is chiefly employed as spices and medicine. The dry fruits are a rich source of thymol. They contain 17.2 % of protein and 13% of fat (Chopra Joshi and Agnihotri (1958) described the symptoms, morphology and cultural characteristics of the fungus causing wilt-disease of cumin. Mathur and Prasad (1962) recorded powdery mildew (Erysiphe polygoni DC), blight (Alternaria burnsii) and wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. cumini) diseases on cumin. Of these, wilt was the most serious one causing heavy losses to the crop. The average loss due to the disease was estimated to be 20%.
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