Stemphylium leaf blight | |
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An onion leaf showing Stemphylium leaf blight symptoms and a leaf miner scar | |
Scientific Classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Phylum: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Dothideomycetes |
Subclass: | Pleosporomycetidae |
Order: | Pleosporales |
Family: | Pleosporaceae |
Genus: | Stemphylium |
Species: | Stemphylium vesicarium |
Stemphylium leaf blight (Stemphylium vesicarium) is a plant pathogenic fungus. This disease typically attacks leaf tips, purple blotch lesions, and injured or dying onion leaves and is often identified as purple blotch.[1]
Symptoms[]
Stemphylium vesicarium may enter purple blotch lesions, causing a black fungal growth. Since this fungus is usually found co-infecting with Alternaria porri, symptoms are identical or at least very similar to purple blotch. However, Stemphylium leaf blight lesions appear to be a darker, more olive-brown to black color than do purple blotch lesions. Lesions are often more numerous on the sides of onion leaves facing the prevailing wind. These lesions grow rapidly, coalesce, and cause severe leaf blighting during periods of prolonged leaf wetness.[1]
Control[]
Practices used to suppress purple blotch generally reduce losses to Stemphylium leaf blight.
References[]
- ↑ a b (2003). Crop Profile for Onions in Georgia "Stemphylium Leaf Blight". National Information System for the Regional IPM Centres. Retrieved: 2010-10-22.
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Chives · Garlic chives · Leek · Onion · Shallot | |
Adverse conditions | Bolting · Bruising · Manganese deficiency |
Diseases | Aster yellows · Bacterial soft rot · Centre rot · Black mould · Damping off · Downey mildew · Fusarium basal rot · Neck rot · Onion smudge · Onion smut · Onion white rot · Pink root of onion · Purple blotch · Rust · Sour skin · Stemphylium leaf blight · Xanthomonas leaf blight of onion |
Pests | Cutworm · Leaf miner · Leek moth · Stem and bulb nematode · Thrips · Wireworm |