Rotten sweet potato root tuber samples were collected from a barn and experimental field of the CSIR - Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute (PGRRI), Bunso. Isolation identification fungi associated with carried out at Pathology Laboratory same institute. In all, six fungal species belonging to four genera, namely Fusarium solani, Sclerotium rolfsii, Lasiodiplodia theobromae, Aspergillus o...

Lasiodiplodia theobromae is a fungal pathogen associated with perennial tropical fruit plants worldwide. In citrus, L. causes stem-end rot (Diplodia rot), damaging postharvest disease that aggravated when trees are also infected the citrus greening bacteria ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’. Due to latent infection of during preharvest stage, it becomes difficult control by chemical or physic...