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Damage Assessment of the Gall Mite Aceria pongamiae Keifer 1966 (Acari: Eriophyidae) on Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre

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Pongamia pinnata is well known for its use in traditional system of medicine, for the treatment of varied human diseases like bronchitis, whopping cough, rheumatism, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, flatulence, gonorrhoea, leprosy and even tumours. Aceria pongamiae is a highly host specific eriophyid mite, producing varying numbers of fingerlike leaf galls on P. pinnata. The number of galls on infested leaf varies, quite often individual galls fused to form complex, irregularly shaped, massive structures, covering entire laminar area including the midrib, vein and vein lets. Each gall carries hundreds of mites in different stages of development, namely, the egg, 1st nymph, 1st quiescent stage, 2nd nymph, 2nd quiescent stage and adult male and female. The galls induced by the mite adversely affect the quality of the leaves of P. pinnata, in turn reducing its economic utility in preparation of Ayurvedic medicines. Loss/reduction of leaf lamina would also drastically affect the photosynthetic machinery of the plant, thereby leading to biomass loss. The present study describes the morphological and anatomical changes induced by the feeding activity of various developmental stages of the mite A. pongamiae on the leaves of P. pinnata.

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The first author is grateful to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India for providing Maulana Azad National Fellowship. The authors are most grateful to Dr A.B. Remasree, Scientist, CMPR, Kottakkal, for providing guidelines and technical assistance for doing the photography work. The help rendered by the Nanotechnology Division of NIT, Calicut, in taking scanning electron micrograph of the mite is also gratefully acknowledged. We are also grateful to the technical help rendered by the Mycology Division of the Department of Botany, University of Calicut.

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Nasareen, P.N.M., Vardhanan, Y.S., Ramani, N. (2012). Damage Assessment of the Gall Mite Aceria pongamiae Keifer 1966 (Acari: Eriophyidae) on Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre. In: Sabu, A., Augustine, A. (eds) Prospects in Bioscience: Addressing the Issues. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0810-5_38

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