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Oil Spot Disease in Tea

Nature volume 199, page 92 (1963)Cite this article

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Mulder and Shanmuganathan1 first reported in 1959 a disease of tea referred to as ‘oil-spot of tea leaves’; but they failed to ascribe any definite cause for it. From further investigations carried out here, we have now obtained evidence that the causal organism of this disease is a fungus.

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  1. Mulder, D., and Shanmuganathan, N., Tea Quart., 30, 44 (1959).

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  1. Tea Research Institute, Talawakele, Ceylon

    D. MULDER, N. SHANMUGANATHAN & P. V. ARULPRAGASAM

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MULDER, D., SHANMUGANATHAN, N. & ARULPRAGASAM, P. Oil Spot Disease in Tea. Nature 199, 92 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199092a0

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