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Journal of Biology and Today's World

ISSN - 2322-3308

Crown Gall

 Crown gall is a disease caused by the soil-inhabiting bacteria, bacteria species. The bacteria causes abnormal growths or galls on roots, twigs, and branches of magnoliopsid genus and alternative shrubs primarily within the family Rosaceae. The bacteria stimulates the zoom of plant cells that leads to the galls.
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is that the cause of sickness} disease in over one hundred forty species of eudicots. it's a rod-shaped, gram-negative soil bacteria.
Crown gall can be avoided by victimization nursery stock freed from suspicious bumps close to the crown, former soil line, or graft union; active five-year rotation or avoiding replanting for that period; removing severely infected plants (including as several roots as possible); protective against injury; keeping down weeds; dominant root-chewing insects and nematodes; cutting away giant galls on trees; and disinfecting wounds.
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