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GUAVA is grown extensively in Uttar Pradesh and is a major fruit crop of the State, occupying nearly 70,000 acres of land. A wilt disease was first reported from the Allahabad district of the State1. This district is noted for its fine quality guavas and supplies a very large number of grafted plants from its nurseries to the rest of the country. The disease has advanced with great rapidity within a few years and has become a menace to successful cultivation of this valuable fruit in the eastern districts of the State. A rough estimate puts the area threatened by this disease at about 20,000 square miles.
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PRASAD, N., MEHTA, P. & LAL, S. Fusarium Wilt of Guava (Psidium guyava L.) in Uttar Pradesh, India. Nature 169, 753 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169753b0
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