First Report of Nigrospora sphaerica  Causing Leaf Spots on Celtis australis from Himachal Pradesh, India

Ajay Kumar, Abhilashi Institute of Life Sciences

First Report of Nigrospora sphaerica Causing Leaf Spots on Celtis australis from Himachal Pradesh, India

2013

Ajay Kumar, Abhilashi Institute of Life Sciences

Nigrospora sphaerica collected on living leaves of Celtis australis L. (Cannabaceae) from Himachal Pradesh, India is a new host record. Symptoms of the disease on leaves appeared in the form of small, circular to irregular, brown - coloured spots surrounded by a yellow zone. The fungus isolated was identified as Nigrospora sphaerica (Sacc.) E.W. Mason, on the basis of cultural and morphological characters. The fungus is described and illustrated

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