First report of Lasiodiplodia theobromae causing leaf blight on the orchid Catasetum fimbriatum in Brazil

U. P. Lopes; L. Zambolim; O. L. Pereira

doi:10.1071/DN09027

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First report of Lasiodiplodia theobromae causing leaf blight on the orchid Catasetum fimbriatum in Brazil

U. P. Lopes ^A , L. Zambolim ^A and O. L. Pereira ^A ^B

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^A Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-000 Viçosa, M.G., Brazil.

^B Corresponding author. Email: oliparini@ufv.br

Australasian Plant Disease Notes 4(1) 64-65 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN09027
Submitted: 30 April 2009 Accepted: 25 May 2009 Published: 10 June 2009

Abstract

A leaf blight caused by Lasiodiplodia theobromae is reported for the first time on the orchid Catasetum fimbriatum.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais-FAPEMIG for providing financial support (project 279/07) and O. L. Pereira acknowledges the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-CNPq research fellowship of this ongoing program of surveying and describing the phytopathogenic and the endophytic mycodiversity associated with the family Orchidaceae in the state of Minas Gerais.

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