Abstract
Tea is a perennial crop, which under natural conditions will grow to a height of about nine metres. Pruning and plucking, however, maintain it in a bush form, in the vegetative phase, so that the leaf for which it is cultivated can be harvested easily. These alterations in its natural habitat and its cultivation under monocultural conditions on a commercial scale make the transmission of diseases easy and their control difficult. Most of the diseases of tea are of fungal origin and only a few are caused by bacteria, algae and viruses.
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Arulpragasam, P.V. (1992). Disease control in Asia. In: Willson, K.C., Clifford, M.N. (eds) Tea. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2326-6_11
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