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Ceratocystis Primer

General Information


Authors

Andrew K. Gonsalves, E ducational Specialist

Stephen A. Ferreira, Extension Plant Pathologist

Department of Plant Pathology, CTAHR

University of Hawaii at Manoa


Pathogens & Hosts

Four Ceratocystis species have been reported to occur in Hawaii (Raabe, et al., 1981). The following is a list of the reported pathogens from this genus (Ceratocystis) and the hosts they infect. The list is organized by the scientific name of the pathogen species (CAPITAL LETTERS), followed by the symptom or disease a given pathogen causes on the listed hosts.

CERATOCYSTIS ADIPOSA

Black Rot:

  • sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)

CERATOCYSTIS FIMBRIATA

Black Rot:

  • sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

Blight:

  • syngonium (Syngonium podophyllum)

CERATOCYSTIS KOEPKEI

Yellow Spot:

  • sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)

CERATOCYSTIS PARADOXA

Bleeding Canker:

  • coconut palm (Cocos nucifera)

Fruit Rot:

  • banana (Musa acuminata, AAA)

Fruit and Butt Rot:

  • pineapple (Ananas comosus)
  • Pineapple Disease, Parasitic:
  • sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)

Other:

  • tawny daylily (Hemerocallis fulva)
  • Hemerocallis sp.
  • Plumeria sp.
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Taxonomy

KINGDOM: Mycetae (fungi)

DIVISION: Eumycota

SUBDIVISION: Ascomycotina (The sac fungi)

CLASS: Pyrenomycetes (The perithecial fungi)

ORDER: Sphaeriales

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Characteristics

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Disease Types

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Management

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References

Agrios, G.N. 1988. Plant Pathology, 3rd edition. Academic Press, Inc: San Diego. 803 pp.

Farr, , D.F., G.F. Bills, G.P. Chamuris, and A.Y. Rossman. 1989. Fungi on Plants and Plant Products in the United States. APS PRESS: St. Paul, Minnesota. 1252 pp.

Raabe, Robert D., Ibra L. Conners, and Albert P. Martinez. 1981. Checklist of Plant Diseases in Hawaii. Hawaii Institute of Agriculture and Human Resources, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii (Information Text Series 022).

Streets, R.B. 1982. The Diagnosis of Plant Diseases: a field and laboratory manual emphasizing the most practical methods for rapid identification. The University of Arizona Press: Tucson, Arizona.

JUNE 1994

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