PRELIMINARY IDENTICATION OF ALTERNARIA CROWN BLIGHT DISEASE OF CYCAS REVOLUTA FROM EASTERN UTTAR PRADESH
The Sago palm (Cycas revoluta) is a common cycad used in landscape today. It requires preferably dry climatic conditions to grow but factors like high soil moisture levels and other stress may cause this impervious plant to develop a few diseases. Cycas revoluta with significant infection in crown axis showed blighted appearance for which preliminary identification of Alternaria alternata has been done from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh.