A review of the impact of charcoal rot (Macrophomina phaseolina) on sunflower

Abstract

SUMMARYCharcoal rot, caused by Macrophomina phaseolina, is the most prevalent and important disease of crop plants such as sunflower. Although it is monotypic and no physiological races have been reported, it has high genetic variability resulting in a wide host range, which in turn means that crop rotation is not an effective strategy to combat the disease. The current paper reviews the adverse effects of this disease and summarizes the present state of knowledge about charcoal rot severity and its impact on crop production.

Antifungal activity of various essential oils againstRhizoctonia solaniandMacrophomina phaseolinaas major bean pathogens

“…The development of intercellular mycelium and its close association with cell wall in cortex are correlated with pectinase concentration (Ijaz et al . ).…”

ANTIFUNGAL POTENTIAL OF A BRASSICACEOUS WEED Sisymbrium irio AGAINST Macrophomina phaseolina

“…Under favorable environmental conditions, the fungus causes charcoal rot, dry rot, stem blight, leaf blight and damping off in more than 500 plant species belonging to about 100 angiospermic families (Ijaz et al, 2013). Cereals, legumes, oil seed crops, horticultural crops as well as woody plants could not escape from this devastating pathogen (Ijaz et al, 2013;Yildiz and Benlioglu, 2014;Sun et al, 2016). It primarily infects its host plants through black and multi-celled (50 to 200 individual cells) microsclerotia which are hyphal cells aggregates formed by joining melanin material (Holliday, 1995).…”

Survey, Virulence and Pathogenicity of Root Rot Incidence of Cowpea in Selected Districts of Tamilnadu caused by Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi.) Goid

“…Also, several earlier workers have reported about the variations in the mycelial growth among the isolates of M. phaseolina (Edraki and Banihashemi, 2010;Ijaz et al, 2012). M. phaseolina isolates from pearl millet, sesame, horsegram and mothbean differed in their mycelial growth and showed marked variation in cultural characters (Sharma and Dureja, 2004).…”