Abstract:
Among several diseases recorded in Clove plantations, leaf fall disease is severe. Although the disease has been recorded in n\ id country region (Jayasinghe and Liyanage, 1982) in earlier and currently, it is distributed throughout the southern region. Identical purplish brown color spots are noticed when fungus is infected and gradually tune them into brown color. Severely infected leaves are withered, dropped and dried up and cause sudden death of plants finally. There are no proper cultural or agronomic practices to manage the situation. Therefore, this study was carried out to confirm the causal agent of disease and find out most suitable fungicide and application method to manage the disease in field plants.
