Lasiodiplodia theobromae is the causal agent of a damaging root and collar rot disease on the biofuel plant Jatropha curcas in Brazil
O. L. Pereira A C , D. C. Dutra A and L. A. S. Dias BA Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-000 Viçosa, MG, Brazil.
B Departamento de Fitotecnia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-000 Viçosa, MG, Brazil.
C Corresponding author. Email: oliparini@ufv.br
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 4(1) 120-123 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN09049
Submitted: 9 November 2009 Accepted: 16 November 2009 Published: 30 November 2009
Abstract
A damaging root and collar rot disease caused by Lasiodiplodia theobromae was observed on adult plants of Jatropha curcas in the states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo, Brazil. This is the first report of this disease in Brazil, previously only known from India.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Ana Cristina P. Juhász (EPAMIG- Centro Tecnológico do Triângulo e Alto Paranaíba), Luciano Piovesan Leme (Fusermann Biocombustíveis), Fabiano Prudente de Moraes and José Antônio de Souza Júnior for sending diseased material from different regions. Special thanks to Ana C. P. Juhász for permission to use photographs utilised in Figs 1A and 2A and Fabiano Prudente de Moraes for the photographs utilised in Figs 1B, 2B, 3 and 5A. The authors also wish to thank Auxiliadora O. Martins who provided healthy J. curcas plants for inoculation.
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