First report of Cladosporium musae on banana in South Africa
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Australasian Plant Pathology
- Vol. 32 (4) , 499-503
- https://doi.org/10.1071/ap03051
Abstract
An unknown speckle disease was recently observed on Cavendish banana leaves in Levubu, the most northern of the five banana-growing regions of South Africa. Morphological examination of infected material and single conidial isolates of the causal organism revealed that it was . Isolates of the fungus were subjected to pathogenicity testing and sequencing of the ITS region (ITS-1 and ITS-2) and the 5.8S gene of the rDNA operon, and compared with an authentic strain of . These results verified the identity of the fungus as and constitute the first confirmed report of Cladosporium speckle on banana leaves in South Africa.Keywords
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