Australasian Plant Disease Notes (2019) 14 (10) - Athelia rolfsii

Bienvenido D. Acabal Jr, Teresita U. Dalisay, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Pedro W. Crous and Christian Joseph R. Cumagun (2019)
Athelia rolfsii (= Sclerotium rolfsii) infects banana in the Philippines
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 14 (10)
Abstract: We surveyed eight banana farms planted with cultivar "Lakatan" in Central Visayas, Philippines, for fungal diseases in 2014. A rotting disease on the corm and leaf sheaths, splitting of the pseudostem and yellowing of the leaves were observed only in Toledo City, Cebu province. These symptoms were associated with sclerotial bodies and mycelial growth. The causal organism was identified by morphology and ITS sequence as Athelia rolfsii (= Sclerotium rolfsii) which is the first report of this fungal pathogen on banana from the Philippines.
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Database assignments for author(s): Johannes Z. Groenewald, Pedro W. Crous, Christian Joseph R. Cumagun

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Athelia rolfsii	Banana/plantain (Musa)	Philippines