PLPA 301
Plant Pathology - Fungal Diseases

Exams Objectives
Significant Viral Diseases

Significant Ascomycete Diseases and Fungi Imperfecti on Important Texas Crops

Crop Diseases Pathogen
Rice

Brown Spot

Sheath Blight

Seedling Diseases

Bipolaris oryzae

Rhizoctonia solani

Phythium sp., Rhizocotonia solani, Sclerotium rolfsii

Wheat

Powdery Mildew

Leaf Blotch

Root Rot

Foot Rot

Erysiphe graminus f.sp. tritici

Septoria tritici

Rhizoctonia solani

Fusarium sp.

Cotton

Cotton Root Rot

Verticilium Wilt

Fusarium Wilt

Phymatotrichum omnivorum

Verticillium albo-atrum

Fusarium oxysporum Esp. vaxinfectum

Peanut

Early Leaf Spot

Late Leaf Spot

Southern Blight

Seedling Disease

Cercospora arachidicola

Cercospora personatum

Sclerotium rolfsii

Rhizoctonia solani, Phythium sp.**, Fusarium sp., Aspergillus niger

**Fungus not an ascomycete

Tomato

Fusarium Wilt

Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici
Watermelon

Anthracnose

Leaf Spots

Colletotrivhum lagenarium

Cercospora asp.

Pepper

Damping off

Southern Blight

Rhizoctonia solani, Phythium sp.**

Sclerotium rolfsii

**Fungus not an ascomycete

Apple

Scab

Powdery Mildew

Cotton Root Rot

Southern Blight

 

Venturia inaequalis

Padosphaera leucotricha

Phymatotrichum omnivorum

Sclerotium rolfsii

Grape

Powdery Mildew

Anthracnose

Cotton Root Rot

Incinula necator

Elsinoe ampelina

Phymatotrichum omnivorum

Peach

Brown Rot

Leaf Curl

Scab

Monilinia fructicola

Taphrina deformans

Cladosporium carpophilum

Pecan

Scab

Brown Leaf Spot

Powdery Mildew

Cottton Root Rot

Cladosporium effusum

Cercospora fusca

Microsphaera alni

Phymatotrichum omnivorum

Oak

Wilt

Hypoxylon Canker

Ceratocystis fagacearum

Hypoxylon airopunctatum

Pittosporum Leaf Spot Cercospora pittospori
Rose

Black Spot

Marsonnina rosae (ana.), Diplocarpon rosae (teleo.)
Turfgrass Brown Patch Rhizoctonia solani


Exams Objectives
Significant Viral Diseases