Malformation: Impending danger in mango cultivation

Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is an important fruit crop in India and honored as king of fruit in the country. Among the several abiotic and biotic factors, mango malformation is the most serious disease causes up to 60 per cent yield losses and confines the mango cultivation in tropical and subtropical countries of the worldwide. Mango malformation expresses two types of symptoms on plant i.e. vegetative and floral malformation, in which floral malformation is very virulent and causes the loss of entire crop than the vegetative one. Initially the epidemiology of mango malformation is not clearly understood and conflict reports regarding the causal agent existed.