date:Sep 17, 2019
Scientists of University Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia) have detected firstly the reddish brown spot disease on dragon fruit in Malaysia. They collected stems of red-fleshed dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) with reddish brown spots from Negeri Sembilan and Johor states, then analysed the symptomatic samples in terms of morphology and DNA sequences.
The fungi isolated from the stems have been identified as Nigrospora lacticolonia and N. sphaerica, as the causal pathogens of the disease, t