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Colletotrichum gloeosporioides: Pathogen of Anthracnose Disease in Mango (Mangifera indica L.)

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The Mango is severely affected with anthracnose disease caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides belongs to order melanoconiales. C. gloeosporioides affects mango crop as the most threatening malady that results in huge economic losses about 30–60 % damage which sometimes increased up to 100 % in fruit produce under wet or very humid conditions. The optimum temperature for conidial germination and infection is around 25–30 °C when free moisture is available. The anthracnose pathogen is found present on the host tissues as endophyte and remain in quiescent stage but, with the onset of moist and rainy season causes serious infection. Pathogen produced lesions on leaves, fruits and panicles and with increasing penetration of pathogen to host tissue the lesions become dark and form concentric ring pattern. The blossom as well as peduncle blight is the most destructive phase of this disease, as it affects fruit set and ultimately the yield. C. gloeosporioides display a range of nutritional strategies and lifestyles, including plant associations that occupy a continuum from necrotrophy to hemibiotrophy and endophytism. During the anamorph (asexual) stage the pathogen is typically haploid and becomes diploid during transition towards teleomorph (sexual = Glomerulla) stage. With the advances in genomics and transcriptomics in future there would be more new vistas in exploration of molecular mechanism of anthracnose disease occurrence. How certain signal molecules activated and leads to changes in lifestyle of C. gloeosporioides from biotrophic to necrotrophic stage especially during fruit ripening.

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  1. Department of Dryland Agriculture and Biotechnology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, 84105, Israel

    Madhu Kamle

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Kamle, M., Kumar, P. (2016). Colletotrichum gloeosporioides: Pathogen of Anthracnose Disease in Mango (Mangifera indica L.). In: Kumar, P., Gupta, V., Tiwari, A., Kamle, M. (eds) Current Trends in Plant Disease Diagnostics and Management Practices. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27312-9_9

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