Pearl Millet Diseases

Table 2. Host ranges and geographic distributions of Bipolaris species pathogenic to Pennisetum species*

Species	Host range	Geographic distribution
B. australiensis†	Chloris, Cymbopogon, Cynodon, Hordeum, Oryza, Pennisetum, Saccharum, Sorghum, Zea	Australia, Egypt, India, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Libya, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Zimbabwe
B. bicolor†	Andropogon, Apluda, Brachiaria, Cymbopogon, Eleusine, Eragrostis, Melanocenchris, Oryza, Panicum, Paspalum, Pennisetum, Setaria, Sorghum, Triticum, Urochloa, Zea, Zizania	Australia, Brazil, Canada, East & West Africa, Ethiopia, India, Ivory Coast, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Yugoslavia, USA, Zimbabwe
B. cynodontis†	Agropyron, Axonopus,Cynodon, Dactyloctenium, Hordeum, Oryza, Panicum, Pennisetum, Triticum, Zea	Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, India, Israel, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Spain, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, USA, former USSR, Zimbabwe
B. hawaiiensis†	Andropogon, Avena, Cenchrus, Chloris, Cynodon, Desmostachya, Digitaria, Eleusine, Hordeum, Oryza, Pennisetum, Saccharum, Setaria, Sorghum, Triticum, Zea	Australia, Burma, Cuba, Ethiopia, Egypt, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, USA (Hawaii), Zambia
B. nodulosa†	Digitaria, Eleusine, Eragrostis, Pennisetum	Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Malawi, Mauritius, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, USA, Zambia, Zimbabwe
B. setariae†	Echinochloa, Eleusine, Eragrostis, Panicum, Pennisetum, Setaria	Australia, Europe, North America, Ethiopia, India, Sierra Leone, Taiwan, Uganda, Venezuela
B. spicifera†	Agrostis, Avena, Cymbopogon, Cynodon, Dactylis, Desmostachya, Eleusine, Holcus, Hordeum, Oryza, Panicum, Pennisetum, Phleum, Poa, Saccharum, Sorghum, Triticum, Zea	Africa, America, Asia, Australia & Oceania, West Indies
B. colocasiae	Cymbopogon, Colocasia, Pennisetum, Triticum/Hordeum	India
B. indica	Panicum, Pennisetum, Portulaca	Australia, China, Egypt, India, South Africa
B. mediocris	Pennisetum	Ethiopia, Guinea, South Africa
B. papendorfii	Pennisetum, Setaria, Sorghum, Triticum	Australia, Egypt, India, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
B. sacchari	Cynodon, Panicum, Pennisetum, Saccharum	Africa, America, Asia, Australasia and Oceania, Europe (Italy)
B. urochloae	Panicum, Pennisetum, Triticum, Urochloa, Zea	Australia, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, South Africa, West Germany, Zimbabwe
B. zeae	Alloteropsis, Cenchrus, Imperata, Pennisetum, Triticum, Zea	Australia, Brazil, India

* Information derived from Sivanesan (1987); used with permission of CAB International. Not all Pennisetum hosts are P. glaucum.

† Known to have a Cochliobolus teleomorph.

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Original posting: June 5, 1999.