Pacific Pests & Pathogens - Mini Fact Sheet EditionLettuce Septoria leaf spot (150)
Pacific Pests & Pathogens - Mini Fact Sheet EditionLettuce Septoria leaf spot (150)
Summary
- Worldwide distribution. On lettuce. An important disease.
- A fungus producing large spots between the veins which dry and fall out. Fruiting bodies filled with spores occur in the spots. Spread occurs in rain-splash, wind-driven rain, and in infected seed.
- Worse during periods of high rainfall when spots merge to destroy leaves and reduce quality.
- Cultural control: use certified seed; check plants in the nursery for leaf spots; use drip rather than overhead irrigation; collect debris and incorporate into soil or burn; 3-year crop rotation.
- Chemical control: use copper or mancozeb; if systemic products needed, use triazoles.
Common Name
Lettuce leaf spot and blight; Septoria spot, Septoria leaf spot
Scientific Name
Septoria lactucae
AUTHOR Grahame Jackson
Information (and Photo 3) from Gerlach WWP (1988) Plant diseases of Western Samoa. Samoan German Crop Protection Project, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) Gmbh, Germany; and information (and Photos 1&2) from Diseases of vegetable crops in Australia (2010). Editors, Denis Persley, Tony Cooke, Susan House. CSIRO Publishing.
Produced with support from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research under project PC/2010/090: Strengthening integrated crop management research in the Pacific Islands in support of sustainable intensification of high-value crop production, implemented by the University of Queensland and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
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