Foliar Disease of Sorghum Species Caused by Cercospora fusimaculans

Wall, G C and Mughogho, L K and Frederiksen, R A and Odvody, G N (1987) Foliar Disease of Sorghum Species Caused by Cercospora fusimaculans. Plant Disease, 71 (8). pp. 759-760. ISSN 0191-2917

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Abstract

A Cercospora species with catenulate conidia was isolated on V-8-CaCO3 from foliar lesions on Sorghum bicolor and S. halepense, and the original scalariform lesions were reproduced on sorghum cultivar TX7078. Samples of this foliar disease were mailed from Rwanda and from Comayagua, Honduras, to the Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, U.K., for pathogen identification. The pathogen was identified as Cercospora fusimaculans. Field inoculations were performed in Choluteca, Honduras. This disease, which we hereby name ladder leaf spot, is distinguishable from gray leaf spot of sorghum caused by C. sorghi by its scalariform or ladderlike elliptical lesions. Sources of resistance to ladder leaf spot and gray leaf spot are apparently independent of each other. Ladder leaf spot has been observed on sorghum in Experiment, GA, at various locations in Texas, in Tampico, Mexico, throughout Honduras, and in El Salvador, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Rwanda, Malawi, and Zambia

Item Type:	Article
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Subjects:	Mandate crops > Sorghum Others > Entomology
Depositing User:	Mr B K Murthy
Date Deposited:	13 Jun 2014 11:00
Last Modified:	13 Jun 2014 11:00
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/8123
Official URL:	http://www.apsnet.org/publications/plantdisease/ba...
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