blister blight

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Noun	1.	blister blight - a disease of Scotch pines blight - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
	2.	blister blight - a disease of tea plants blight - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

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The tea mosquito bug (Helopeltis theivora), the red spider (or tea mite, Tetranychus bioculatus), thrips, tea aphis and blister blight particularly vexed Assam planters in the period under review, and continue to do so till this day.

Bugs in the garden: Tea plantations and environmental constraints in eastern India (Assam), 1840-1910

In South India, the main problems occur because of a leaf fungus disease called Blister Blight in the wet weather, and varieties of leaf-damaging mites in the dry weather.

ORGANIC TEA FROM SOUTH INDIA

While their use may be in the area of rhizosphere, their application for foliar diseases such as Blister blight, for which 35-37 sprays are in vogue in India, may be useful provided that we have the right type of organisms and also the formulation which will kill the spore before it enters, and therefore effectively reduce the sporulation.