Morphological, cultural and ITS sequence based identification of pathogenic fungi causing diseases of gerbera from different regions of Maharashtra

Abstract

Different fungal diseases are the major concerns for limiting the cultivation and production of gerbera plants. Gerbera is amongst the most important cut flowers that has huge potential of export. It has been observed that gerbera is infected by many pathogens. During its cultivation variety of infections include fungi from different origins. Several infectious fungal diseases were identified using epidemiological study which include botrytis blight, powdery mildew, Fusarium wilt, Alternaria leaf spot and Pythium rot. This study includes morphological and cultural identification, genomic Sequencing of the pathogenic fungi identified for different diseases.