Integrated Management of Peanut Foliar Diseases by Cercospora, Alternaria and Web Blotch

The concept of integrated management was first conceptualized in the 1950s by entomologists to describe the selection of specific pesticides with adjusted dosages and application timings to control harmful insects and mites while preserving beneficial insects. However, the management of disease conveys the idea of a continuous process that is more preventative in which the loss from disease is kept below some economic level. Over the decades, the concept was eventually expanded to include all relevant biological, cultural, and chemical tactics to manage insect, pathogen and weed pests of crops; a multi-tactic approach to pest management. Notably, the concept of plant health management was taken up by the American Phytopathological Society in the early ’90s, which resulted in series of Plant Health Management publications such as “Wheat health Management” and “Potato Health Management”. In this review article, we will discuss the closely associated pathogens included Cercospora, Alternaria, and Web blotch, which cause peanut foliar disease, and its management strategies.