Vol. 57 No. 2 (2018)
New or Unusual Disease Reports

First report of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides on citrus in Algeria

Djamel MAHIOUT
Laboratoire de Protection des Végétaux, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis de Mostaganem, BP 188, 27000 Algeria
Boubekeur Seddik BENDAHMANE
Laboratoire de Protection des Végétaux, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis de Mostaganem, BP 188, 27000 Algeria
Mokhtar YOUCEF BENKADA
Laboratoire de Protection des Végétaux, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis de Mostaganem, BP 188, 27000 Algeria
Hanane MEKOUAR
Laboratoire de Protection des Végétaux, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis de Mostaganem, BP 188, 27000 Algeria
Nabil BERRAHAL
Laboratoire de Protection des Végétaux, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis de Mostaganem, BP 188, 27000 Algeria
Martina RICKAUER
Ecolab, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 18 Chemin de Borde Rouge, Pôle de Biotechnologie Végétale, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France

Published 2018-09-17

Keywords

  • Anthracnose,
  • pathogenicity

How to Cite

[1]
D. MAHIOUT, B. S. BENDAHMANE, M. YOUCEF BENKADA, H. MEKOUAR, N. BERRAHAL, and M. RICKAUER, “First report of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides on citrus in Algeria”, Phytopathol. Mediterr., vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 355–359, Sep. 2018.

Abstract

Wither-tip symptoms of twigs were observed on cultivated sweet orange and lemon trees in Algeria. The causal agent was identified as Colletotrichum gloeosporioides on the basis of cultural and morphological features. The identification of the fungus was confirmed by sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer region of rDNA. Pathogenicity tests revealed that C. gloeosporioides isolated from withered twigs caused typical anthracnose symptoms on orange leaves. This is the first report on Colletotrichum gloeosporioides as causal agent of anthracnose in Citrus trees in Algeria.

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