ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICTION OF FUNGI INFECTING ALOE VERA PLANT | ||
| Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum | ||
| Article 1, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2017, Pages 91-97 | ||
| Author | ||
| Goner A. Shaker | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study included isolation and identification of the fungi associated with Aloe vera (L.) in nurseries and plant gardens. The results showed that the fungi Alternaria alternata, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium solani, Nigrospora oryzae, Cladosporium herbarum, Stemphylium botryosum, Aspergillus niger, Penicillium sp. were isolated from the diseased leaves of Aloe vera showing spots and blight symptoms. The percentages of disease incidence in March, Jun and August were found to be 5, 50 and 60 %, respectively. Pathogenicity test of Alternaria alternata, Fusarium oxysporum, Nigrospora oryzae and Cladosporium herbarum showed that disease index were 50, 25,25and 12.5 %, respectively. The fungi isolated on Aloe vera in this study have not been published previously in Iraq. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Aloe vera; Fungi; Gardens; Isolation; Nurseries | ||
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