Bean Anthracnose: Complete Treatment Guide
What is Bean Anthracnose?
Symptoms
- Dark sunken lesions
- Reddish borders
- Brown leaf spots
- Stem lesions
- Pod damage
- Plant death
What Causes Bean Anthracnose?
- Colletotrichum lindemuthianum
- Infected seed
- Splashing water
- High humidity
- Warm temperatures
- Previous infection
How to Treat Bean Anthracnose
Organic Treatments
- Copper fungicide
- Clean seed
- Remove infected plants
- Crop rotation
- Clean practices
- Organic sprays
Chemical Treatments
- Protective fungicide
- Seed treatment
- Regular spraying
- Systemic products
Cultural Controls
- Disease-free seed
- Crop rotation
- Plant spacing
- Good drainage
- Clean practices
- Regular monitoring
How to Prevent Bean Anthracnose
- Clean seed
- Resistant varieties
- Proper spacing
- Good drainage
- Field sanitation
- Weather monitoring
Recommended Fertilizers for Bean Anthracnose
- Balanced nutrition
- Plant strengtheners
- Disease resistance
- Growth promoters