27 fungal diseases in Laisha's encyclopedia, A to Z.

• Anthracnose of chilli (fruit rot and dieback)Colletotrichum scovillei and Colletotrichum truncatumFungal disease · Anthracnose is the most damaging fungal disease of chilli and sweet pepper fruit in the tropics and…
• Anthracnose of mangoColletotrichum gloeosporioides species complexFungal disease · Anthracnose is the most important disease of mango wherever the crop meets rain at flowering or fruiting. It…
• Asian soybean rustPhakopsora pachyrhiziFungal disease · A rust fungus that can strip soybean plants of their leaves within weeks of first appearing, before the pods…
• Black Sigatoka (black leaf streak of banana)Pseudocercospora fijiensisFungal disease · The most damaging leaf disease of banana and plantain. Dark streaks spread across leaves until they die, so…
• Brown spot of riceBipolaris oryzaeFungal disease · Brown spot covers rice leaves and grains with oval brown spots with grey centres. It is a disease of poor and…
• Coffee leaf rustHemileia vastatrixFungal disease · The most damaging disease of arabica coffee. Orange powdery spots on the undersides of leaves make trees drop…
• Early blight of potato and tomatoAlternaria solaniFungal disease · Early blight is a common leaf disease of potato and tomato that makes dark brown spots with rings like a…
• False smut of riceUstilaginoidea virensFungal disease · False smut turns individual rice grains into velvety balls of spores, first orange-yellow and later…
• Fusarium head blight (head scab) of wheat and barleyFusarium graminearumFungal disease · Fusarium head blight, or scab, bleaches the ears of wheat and barley when warm, wet weather coincides with…
• Fusarium wilt of banana (Panama disease, TR4)Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubenseFungal disease · A soil-borne fungus that invades banana roots and blocks the water-conducting tissue, so plants yellow, wilt…
• Fusarium wilt of chickpeaFusarium oxysporum f. sp. cicerisFungal disease · Fusarium wilt is the most important soil-borne disease of chickpea. Infected plants droop, turn dull green…
• Fusarium wilt of tomatoFusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersiciFungal disease · Fusarium wilt is a soil-borne disease that blocks the water-conducting tissue of tomato. Lower leaves yellow,…
• Grey mould (Botrytis)Botrytis cinereaFungal disease · Grey mould is a fluffy grey fungus that rots strawberries, grapes, tomatoes, flowers and hundreds of other…
• Guava wiltNalanthamala psidii and Fusarium speciesFungal disease · Guava wilt is a destructive disease in which guava trees suddenly lose their leaves and die, branch by branch…
• Karnal bunt of wheat (partial bunt)Tilletia indicaFungal disease · Karnal bunt replaces part of some wheat grains with black, fishy-smelling spores. Yield loss is usually…
• Leaf rust of wheat (brown rust)Puccinia triticinaFungal disease · Leaf rust, or brown rust, is the most common and widespread rust of wheat. It scatters small orange-brown…
• Powdery mildew of cucurbitsPodosphaera xanthiiFungal disease · The commonest disease of cucumber, melon, squash, pumpkin and other cucurbits worldwide. It covers leaves…
• Powdery mildew of grapevineErysiphe necatorFungal disease · The most widespread disease of grapevines. It covers leaves, shoots and young bunches with a grey-white…
• Powdery mildew of mangoErysiphe alphitoides (syn. Oidium mangiferae)Fungal disease · Powdery mildew covers mango flower panicles, young leaves and tiny fruits with a white, flour-like growth.…
• Powdery mildew of wheat and barleyBlumeria graminisFungal disease · Powdery mildew covers the leaves, stems and ears of wheat and barley with fluffy white to grey pustules that…
• Red rot of sugarcaneColletotrichum falcatumFungal disease · Red rot is the most destructive disease of sugarcane in South Asia and a serious one in other tropical cane…
• Rice blastPyricularia oryzaeFungal disease · Rice blast is the most important disease of rice worldwide. The fungus makes diamond-shaped grey lesions on…
• Septoria tritici blotch of wheatZymoseptoria triticiFungal disease · Septoria tritici blotch is the most important leaf disease of wheat in Europe and a major one in other wet…
• Sheath blight of riceRhizoctonia solani AG1-IAFungal disease · Sheath blight is the second most important disease of rice after blast in many regions. Oval grey-green…
• Stem rust of wheat (black rust)Puccinia graminis f. sp. triticiFungal disease · Stem rust, or black rust, is historically the most feared disease of wheat: in a warm, humid season it can…
• Wheat blastPyricularia oryzae Triticum lineageFungal disease · Wheat blast is a fast, destructive disease of wheat caused by a wheat-adapted lineage of the rice blast…
• Yellow rust of wheat (stripe rust)Puccinia striiformis f. sp. triticiFungal disease · Yellow rust, or stripe rust, is a cool-weather rust that covers wheat leaves with stripes of bright…