The major diseases associated with Safflower and some of the resistant sources

There are several diseases reported to be associated with safflower Carthamus tinctorius L from various growing areas in Iran The fungal disease species Alternaria alternate A carthani Bremia lactuca Cochlioblus sativus Fusarium culmarum F oxysporum Gibberella acuminate Fusarium acuminate G intercans Fusarium equiseti Golovinomyces cichoracearum Erysiple cichoracearum Leveilla taurica Macrophomina phaseolina Nectria haematococca Fusarium solani Phytophthora drechsleri Puccinia carthami Pythium oliganderum P ultimum Ramularia cynarae R carthami and or Cercospora carthami Sclerotinia sclerotiarum Thanatephorus cucumeries Rhizoctonia solani and in case of wild safflower Leveilla taurica Puccinia carthami and Ramularia cynarae are reported so far Also studies on species of Phytophthora only P drechesleri P palmivora P caryptogea P quercina P cactorum P sparagi andP erythroseptica showed to be pathogenic to safflower There are phyllody symptoms which were observed in Fars and Yazd provinces showed floral virescence phyllody and proliferation proliferation of axillary buds along the stem and little leaf symptom most closely related to brinjal little leaf and periwinkle little leaf phytoplasmas members of subgroup SrVI C Nineteen safflower genotypes were screening against Macrophomina phaseolina the charcoal rot pathogen Also fourteen genotypes to Pythium ultimum at temperatures and deg C The results in both cases indicated that the genotypes are variable in between to the said diseases