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Table 1. Diseases of Banana and Plantain (Musa spp.)
Disease Common Name(s) Causal agent(s)
Bacteria
Bacterial rhizome and pseudostem soft rot Erwinia sp.?
Bacterial wilt Ralstonia (syn. Pseudomonas) solanacearum (race 1)
Blood disease Ralstonia (syn. Pseudomonas) solanacearum
Bugtok Ralstonia (syn. Pseudomonas) solanacearum (race 2)
Finger tip rot (gumming) Pseudomonas sp.
Javanese vasular wilt “Pseudomonas musae”
Moko Ralstonia (syn. Pseudomonas) solanacearum (race 2)
Rhizome (bacterial head) rot Erwinia carotovora ssp. carotovora, E. chrysanthemi
Pseudostem wet rot Erwinia chrysanthemi
Fungi and stramenopiles
Anthracnose Colletotrichum musae
Armillaria corn rot Armillaria mellea, A. tabescens
Black cross Phyllachora musicola
Black Sigatoka (black leaf streak) Mycosphaerella fijiensis (anamorph: Pseudocercospora fijiensis)
Black root rot Rosellinia bunodes
Brown blotch Pestalotiopsis leprogena
Brown spot Cercospora hayi
Ceratocystis fruit rot Ceratocystis paradoxa (anamorph: Chalara paradoxa)
Cigar-end Verticillium theobromae, Trachysphaera fructigena
Cladosporium speckle Cladosporium musae
Corm dry rot Junghuhnia vincta
Cordana leaf spot Cordana johnstonii, C. musae
Fusarium pallidoroseum, Colletotrichum musae, Verticillium theo-
Crown rot
bromae, Fusarium spp., Acremonium spp.
Cylindrocladium root rot Cylindrocladium spp.
Damping-off Deightoniella torulosa
Deightoniella fruit speckle, eaf spot Deightoniella torulosa
and tip rot
Diamond spot Cercospora hayi, Fusarium spp.
Dwarf Cavendish tip rot Nattrassia mangiferae (syn. Hendersonula toruloidea)
Eumusae leafspot Mycosphaerella eumusae (anamorph: Pseudocercospora eumusae)
Eyespot Dreschslera gigantea
Fruit freckle (freckle) Guignardia musae (anamorph: Phyllosticta musarum)
Fruit rot Botryosphaeria ribis
Fungal root-rot Fusarium solani (teleomorph: Nectria haematococca)

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