Journal of Plant Pathology & Microbiology

Legese Hagos

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• Research Article
  Coffee Thread Blight (Corticium koleroga): a Coming Threat for Ethiopian Coffee Production
  Author(s): Kifle Belachew, Demelash Teferi and Legese Hagos Kifle Belachew, Demelash Teferi and Legese Hagos
  
  Besides its importance coffee production constraints with number biotic factors of which diseases are major. Coffee is prone to a number of diseases that attack fruits, leaves, stems and roots, and reduce yield and marketability. Major coffee diseases in Ethiopia are Coffee berry diseases (Colletotrichum kahawae), Coffee wilt disease (Gibberella xylarioides) and coffee leaf rust (Himalia vestatrix) however, the rest diseases considered minor. Thread blight of coffee caused by Corticium koleroga is an important disease of Coffee in India. Thread blight diseases in Ethiopian coffee for first time recorded at Gera and Metu agricultural research sub-stations in 1978. However it sporadically occurs between June and September, but becoming important at high land coffee growing areas of southwestern, Ethiopia. Investigations including diagnostic surveys for assessing the dis.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7471.1000303

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