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Summary

Common Name

Brown or ghost leaf spot, orange leaf spot, white leaf spot and shot-hole

Scientific Name

Cladosporium colocasiae (brown or ghost leaf spot), Neojohnstonia colocasiae (orange leaf spot), Pseudocercospora colocasiae (white leaf spot), Phoma sp.(shot-hole). Phoma sp. is often given as Phyllosticta colocasiicola.


AUTHORS Helen Tsatsia & Grahame Jackson
Photos 2,5&6 (Gerlach WWP (1988) Plant diseases of Western Samoa. Samoan German Crop Protection Project, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) Gmbh, Germany. Photos 3&4 (taken by Eric McKenzie), and used in this fact sheet, appeared previously in McKenzie E (2013) Neojohnstonia colocasiae. PaDIL - (https://www.padil.gov.au). Photo 6-8 (taken by Eric McKenzie), and used in this fact sheet, appeared previously in McKenzie E (2013) Pseudocercospora colocasiae. PaDIL - (https://www.padil.gov.au). Photo 10 Mani Mua, SPC, Sigatoka Research Syation, Fiji.
 
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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