Pearl Millet Diseases

Table 3. Host ranges and geographic distributions of Curvularia species pathogenic to Pennisetum species*

Species	Host range	Geographic distribution
C. eragrostidis†	Cymbopogon, Digitaria, Eragrostis, Oryza, Panicum, Pennisetum, Rottboellia, Saccharum, Sorghum, Sporobolus, Triticum, Zea	Australia, Brunei, Burma, Cuba, Fiji, Ghana, Guinea, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Trinidad, USA, Zaire
C. geniculata†	Axonopus, Cymbopogon, Ischaemum, Oryza, Panicum, Paspalum, Pennisetum, Poa, Saccharum, Sorghum, Sporobolus, Themeda, Triticum, Zea	Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brunei, Burma, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Ghana, Guinea, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Malawi, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad, Tonga, Uganda, Zaire
C. intermedia†	Cynodon, Digitaria, Oryza, Pennisetum, Saccharum, Sorghum, Triticum, Zea	Australia, Brunei, Guinea, Guyana, Hong Kong, India, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, USA, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
C. pallescens†	Axonopus, Brachiaria, Coix, Cymbopogon, Cynodon, Dactyloctenium, Digitaria, Echinochloa, Euchlaena, Imperata, Oryza, Panicum, Paspalum, Pennisetum, Rottboellia, Saccharum, Setaria, Sorghum, Sporobolus, Triticum, Zea	Australia, Barbados, Brunei, Burma, Canada, Cuba, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
C. tuberculata†	Oryza, Pennisetum, Saccharum, Triticum	Egypt, France, Indochina, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, USA
C. verruculosa†	Buchloe, Chloris, Oryza, Paspalum, Pennisetum, Sorghum, Triticum, Typha, Zea	Australia, Burma, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Tanzania
C. lunata	Cynodon, Oryza, Pennisetum, Saccharum, Sorghum, Triticum, Zea	Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Columbia, Ecuador, Fiji, Gambia, Guadacanal, Guinea, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, USA
C. oryzae	Oryza, Pennisetum, Zea	Egypt, India, Indochina, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand
C. ovoidea	Capsicum, Pennisetum, Zea	Egypt, India, Japan
C. penniseti	Pennisetum, Sorghum, Triticum	Australia, India, Nepal, Nigeria Pakistan, Zimbabwe

* 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.