Identification of mango scab caused by Elsinoë mangiferae in Australia.
Condé B. D., Pitkethley R. N., Smith E. S. C., Kulkarni V. J., Thiagalingam K., Ulyatt L. I., Connelly M. I., Hamilton D. A.
Author Affiliation: Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, GPO Box 990, Darwin, Northern Territory 0801, Australia.
Australasian Plant Pathology 26 :131
Abstract : E. mangiferae was identified for the first time in Australia in January 1997 as a result of intense investigation into severe scarring and distortion of mangoes in the Darwin rural area of the Northern Territory. Spotting and scarring of mango fruit had been observed in the Northern Territory since about 1990 and was commonly believed by growers to be due to a form of anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides [Glomerella cingulata].