Neopestalotiopsis guajavicola sp. nov. causing a new leaf spot on Psidium guajava in Pakistan

Abstract

w plants were covered by polythene bags for three days. Similar leaf spot symptoms, as observed during the field visits, were recorded after 14 days on inoculated leaves. Control plants were asymptomatic. The pathogenicity test was performed twice. The strain of N. guajavicola was deposited in the Fungal molecular biology culture collection (FMB-CC-UAF) with accession number FMB0129. To our knowledge, N. guajavicola is a new pathogen causing leaf spot of P. guajava in Pakistan.

Neopestalotiopsis Leaf Blight, an Emerging Concern on Leatherleaf Fern in Indonesia

“…nov. and N. rosae were reported to cause stem lesion and dieback on avocado in Italy (Fiorenza et al, 2022), N. rosae is caused to leaf spot and crown rot of strawberry in Turkey (Erdurmuş et al, 2023), N. guajavicola sp. nov. causing a new leaf spot on Psidium guajava in Pakistan (Haq et al, 2023), and first report of leaf brown blight caused by N. formicarum was reported in Taiwan (Lin et al, 2022). Moreover in Indonesia, N. zimbabwana was isolated from Basidiomycete fungi Xylaria sp.…”