Occurrence of leaf and pod diseases of sissoo ( dalbergia sissoo roxb ) in bangladesh

Shamim Shamsi, Razia Sultana and Rumana Azad. 2012. Occurrence of leaf and pod diseases of sissoo (Dalbergia sissoo Roxb) in Bangladesh. Bangladesh J. Plant Pathol. 28(1&2):45-52. A study was conducted to identify fungi associated with diseased leaves and pods of sissoo tree (Dalbergia. sissoo Roxb (Sisam). Associated fungi were isolated and identified following standard methods. The fungi associated with leaves were Alternaria alternata (Fries) Keissler, Pseudocercospora dalbergiae (Sun) Yen, Chalara sp., Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Sacc., Cylindrocladium sp., Fusarium solani (Mort.) Sacc., Gebberella sp., Lasiodiplodia theobromae (Pat.) Griffon and Maubol, Memnoniella sp., Phyllactinia dalbergiae Piroz. and its anamorph Ovulariopsis sissoo Shamsi, Sultana and Azad sp. nov, Tetraploa sp. and a rust fungus. From diseased pods, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides was isolated. This is the first report of association of Chalara sp., Memnoniella sp. and Tetraploa sp. with Sissoo from Bangladesh.