• Dwarf bunt

  known to cause the smut disease TCK smut in soft white and hard red winter wheats, as well as dwarf bunt. Damage symptoms Tilletia controversa causes (bunted)

• Bugs

  Biological control of bugs Bugs can cause extensive damage to greenhouse and field crops by feeding on plant tissues and fruits, leading to deformation [...] The most obvious damage is the deformation of growing points. They also cause tissue damage and deformed growth as a result of toxic substances that they

• Pomegranate wilt complex

  (Major cause), species of Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Sclerotium, Macrophomina, Phytophthora are occasionally associated with fungi. Symptoms Affected plants

• Pomegranate bacterial blight

  pathogen also infects branches and stem as water soaked necrotic spots causing girdling and cracking symptoms. Necrotic water-soaked spots appearance on

• Black leg of seedlings

  affect plants that are in a sub-optimal condition or suffer from stress, caused for example by too much water, too high or low temperatures or sudden f [...] temperature. Pythium ultimum mostly occurs at low soil or water temperatures and causes among others cereal diseases. Damage symptoms Pythium affects roots, in

• Onion thrips

  Damage symptoms Thrips cause damage to plants by piercing the cells of the surface tissues and sucking out their contents, causing the surrounding tissue

• Cercospora leaf spot

  Disease Cycle Cercospora leaf spots can be caused by many species of Cercospora species depending on the plant type infected. Infected seeds, infected

• Bacterial canker of tomato

  potatoes can be grown for one year after infection. Damage symptoms Clavibacter causes spots on stems, leaves and fruits. Leaves and shoots wilt. On the lower [...] but other than that the disease is difficult to distinguish from wilting caused by other pathogens. On potato tubers, first discolouration of the vessel

• Leafhoppers

  Leafhoppers are highly mobile, sap-sucking pests that feed on plant leaves, causing discoloration, stippling and leaf curling. Their feeding reduces photosynthesis

• Tobacco whitefly

  and has affected an extremely wide range of crops throughout the world. It causes damage in (sub-)tropical areas especially. The tobacco whitefly ( Bemisia [...] with larger larvae expelling large quantities. The damage that whiteflies cause to a crop is the result of sucking out the sap from the plant leaves and [...] alter their normal physiological processes. In some host plants, this can cause damage, including irregular ripening in tomatoes and sweet peppers, yellowing