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RESEARCH ARTICLE

First report of Colletotrichum boninense infecting yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa) in Brazil

H. J. Tozze Júnior A , I. H. Fischer B , M. P. S. Câmara C and N. S. Massola Júnior A D
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A Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura ‘Luiz de Queiroz’, Departamento de Fitopatologia e Nematologia Agrícola, CP 09, Piracicaba, SP 13418-900, Brazil.

B Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios, Av. Rodrigues Alves, 40-40 Bauru, SP 17030-000, Brazil.

C Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Agronomia, Dois Irmãos, Recife, PE 52171-900, Brazil.

D Corresponding author. Email: nmassola@esalq.usp.br

Australasian Plant Disease Notes 5(1) 70-72 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN10025
Submitted: 5 March 2010  Accepted: 20 June 2010   Published: 12 July 2010

Abstract

In June 2006, fruits of yellow passion fruit with typical anthracnose symptoms were collected in São Paulo state, Brazil. Based on cultural, morphological characteristics and molecular analyses of internal transcribed spacer rRNA region (ITS), the causal agent of the disease was determined as Colletotrichum boninense. This is the first report of C. boninense associated with anthracnose of passion fruit in Brazil.


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