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Fungal Disease Table 1

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Host range and geographic distribution 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, Bracharia, 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	Cynodon, Agropyron, Axonopus, 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, 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, Philipines, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, USA, Zambia, Zimbabwe
B. setariae	Echinochloa, Eleusine, Eragrostis, Panicum, Pennisetum, Setaria	Australia, Europe, America, Ethiopia, India, Sierra Leone, Taiwan, Uganda, Venezuela
B. spicifera	Agrostis, Avena, Cynodon, Cymbopogon, 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, India, China, Egypt, 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, Saccharum, Panicum, Pennisetum	Africa, America, Asia, Australasia and Oceania, Europe (Italy, Madeira)
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). Not all Pennisetum hosts are P. glaucum.