Discard any diseased plants rather than put your healthy houseplants at risk.

For this reason, it's better to remove and discard severely diseased plants, along with some of the earth that surrounds them.

Do the leaves from these and other diseased plants end up in the compost?

Internally infected seeds will produce diseased plants from the point of germination.

Most leaves of a diseased plant are usually affected.

Wash any that held diseased plants with a solution of one part bleach to nine parts water.

Making sure diseased or disease-carrying plants are not introduced into the growing area reduces the disease potential.

However, removing weeds and diseased plants from fields can reduce the chance of infections.

The only known remedy is the removal and burning of diseased plants.

One hopes to cut out the diseased plants so that the others may grow straight and live.