Diseases of crop-plants in the Diseases of crop-plants in the Lesser Antilles diseasesofcroppl00nowe Year: 1923 DISEASES OF BANANA 249 subject to attacks on a large scale by a disease believed to be due to the infestation of the roots and rootstock with a nematode worm, Tylenchus musicola, recently described as a new species from Grenada material by N. A. Cobb. The bluggoe is probably identical with the moko of Trinidad, but the disease under description is quite distinct from the bacterial disease of the moko described by J. B. Rorer The closely related eelworm, Tylenchus Fig. 95 Tylench


Diseases of crop-plants in the Diseases of crop-plants in the Lesser Antilles diseasesofcroppl00nowe Year: 1923 DISEASES OF BANANA 249 subject to attacks on a large scale by a disease believed to be due to the infestation of the roots and rootstock with a nematode worm, Tylenchus musicola, recently described as a new species from Grenada material by N. A. Cobb. The bluggoe is probably identical with the moko of Trinidad, but the disease under description is quite distinct from the bacterial disease of the moko described by J. B. Rorer The closely related eelworm, Tylenchus Fig. 95 Tylenchus Similis Afler N. A. Cobb similis Cobb, was described as the cause of a serious outbreak of a disease of bananas in Fiji, in 1890-gi, by N. A. Cobb, and has been found by S. F. Ashby in Jamaica in association with a disease similar to the one in Grenada. Symptoms. The disease affects the development of shoots of all ages, but is most evident on those that are approaching or have


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