Pseudocercospora fijiensis

TaxID: 1873960

Basic Information

Pseudocercospora fijiensis

Black Sigatoka of Banana, Black sigatoka

Black sigatoka is a leaf-spot disease of banana plants caused by the ascomycete fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis (Morelet), also known as black leaf streak. It was discovered in 1963 and named for its similarities with yellow Sigatoka, which is caused by Mycosphaerella musicola (Mulder), which was itself named after the Sigatoka Valley in Fiji. In the same valley an outbreak of this disease reached epidemic proportions from 1912 to 1923. According to new terminology, the Sigatoka disease complex is a cluster of three closely related fungi: Black Sigatoka and its congeners Yellow Sigatoka (Ps. musae) and eumusae leaf spot (Ps. eumusae). Plants with leaves damaged by the disease may have up to 50% lower yield of fruit, and control can take up to 50 sprays a year.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Ascomycota

Dothideomycetes

Mycosphaerellales

Mycosphaerellaceae

Pseudocercospora

fijiensis

Undefined

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Martin Reith@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (2 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Musa Host
Musa x paradisiaca Host

Quarantine Status (23 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Angola Quarantine pests —
Argentina Absent 2019
Burundi Quarantine pests —
Bangladesh Quarantine pests —
Bahrain A1 list 2003
Brazil Present 2018
Cambodia Quarantine pests —
China Quarantine pests 2021
Egypt A1 list 2018
Guinea Quarantine pests 2022
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Distribution (77 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

73
Present
4
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
American Samoa Present —
Australia Present
Burundi Present —
Benin Present —
Bahamas Present —
Belize Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
Brazil Present
Brazil Absent
Bhutan Present —
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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_011057605.1 Scaffold 44 151 151 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR3593877 - - - 29323768 Honduras: FHIA research station in La Lima
SRR3593878 - - - 38961109 Honduras: FHIA research station in La Lima
SRR3593879 - - - 24219147 Honduras: FHIA research station in La Lima

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature