First report of Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissler causing inflorescence blight in Jatropha curcas in Sinaloa, Mexico

María De Los Angeles Espinoza-Verduzco; María Elena Santos-Cervantes; Ernesto Fernández-Herrera; Mariela Guadalupe Espinoza-Mancillas; Jesús Alicia Chávez-Medina; Enrique Miguel Bermúdez-Álvarez; Alma Leticia Martínez-Ayala; Jesús Méndez-Lozano; Norma Elena Leyva-López

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First report of Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissler causing inflorescence blight in Jatropha curcas in Sinaloa, Mexico

María De Los Angeles Espinoza-Verduzco, María Elena Santos-Cervantes, Ernesto Fernández-Herrera, Mariela Guadalupe Espinoza-Mancillas, Jesús Alicia Chávez-Medina, Enrique Miguel Bermúdez-Álvarez, Alma Leticia Martínez-Ayala, Jesús Méndez-Lozano, Norma Elena Leyva-López

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A new fungal disease of inflorescences of Mexican nut (Jatropha curcas L.) was found on plants in two experimental fields located in Sinaloa, Mexico during summer 2011. The fungus caused inflorescence blight on flowers with typical symptoms of dark brown necrotic lesions; both plantations of J. curcas had disease incidence of 50-60%. Based on cultural and morphological characteristics and ribosomal DNA spacer sequences, the pathogen was identified as Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissler. To our knowledge, this is the first report of Alternaria inflorescence blight disease in J. curcas in Mexico.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	455-458
Number of pages	4
Journal	Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology
Volume	34
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07060661.2012.688770
State	Published - 1 Jul 2012

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Alternaria alternata
Jatropha curcas
Physic nut
inflorescence blight

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Espinoza-Verduzco, M. D. L. A., Santos-Cervantes, M. E., Fernández-Herrera, E., Espinoza-Mancillas, M. G., Chávez-Medina, J. A., Bermúdez-Álvarez, E. M., Martínez-Ayala, A. L., Méndez-Lozano, J., & Leyva-López, N. E. (2012). First report of Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissler causing inflorescence blight in Jatropha curcas in Sinaloa, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, 34(3), 455-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/07060661.2012.688770

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First report of Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissler causing inflorescence blight in Jatropha curcas in Sinaloa, Mexico. / Espinoza-Verduzco, María De Los Angeles; Santos-Cervantes, María Elena; Fernández-Herrera, Ernesto et al.
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