More on corm rot of swamp taro

The following was contributed by Dr Grahame Jackson to follow up an earlier posting on this disease...

The problem of corm rot of swamp taro in the swamp pits of Yap has been identified as Radopholus similis by Gordon Grandison at DSIR (as it was called then) Auckland, New Zealand and CABI Institute of Parasitology, St Albans, England by John Bridge. It is also in Guam in a swamp used by people from Yap. Management of the problem is best sought by cleaning of the planting material of all signs of corm rot. Some preliminary investigations were done too to see if the Colocasia rots in Palau were linked in any way to the swamp taro rots in Yap. These are written up in the proceedings of the UNDP/FAO/GTZ/IRETA Regional Crop Protection Workshop, Apia 1986. Preliminary results from surveys of plant diseases in the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau by GVH Jackson (p. 106).