Gray Mold of Castor: A Review

Abstract

Despite being one of the most important diseases of castor worldwide, causing severe losses on castor yield for almost a century, since its first report, gray mold is still poorly studied. The recent concern about renewable energy sources has proportioned a unique opportunity to draw attention back to this pathosystem. So, researchers involved with castor cultivation must now take this opportunity to try to elucidate the many still to be answered questions about this disease in order to mitigate the constant menace of gray mold to castor crops