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SIGATOKA [2 records]

Record 1 2006-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
CONT

Yellow Sigatoka. The first symptom of the disease is the appearance of yellow-green specks in the lower surface of the third and fourth youngest open leaf. The specks elongate and expand into clearly visible brown streaks. As the streaks further increase in size, they become elliptical brown spots surrounded by a yellow halo that separate the spot from the normal green leaf tissue. When the spots become fully developed, the central areas turn gray, which eventually are surrounded by dark brown or black margin with yellow halo. The spots group together to form large areas of light brown, dried-up leaf tissues. This leads to premature dying of the leaves.

OBS

Symptoms of yellow Sigatoka ... typically develop more slowly than symptoms of black Sigatoka ...

OBS

Authors often use "Sigatoka disease" in reference to the "yellow Sigatoka disease" and will add "black" in front of "Sigatoka disease" if they don't talk about the yellow one.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
  • Arboriculture fruitière
CONT

Les maladies foliaires causées par les Mycosphaerella spp. comprennent trois champignons ascomycètes apparentés : Mycosphaerella fijiensis, agent de la maladie des raies noires ou cercosporiose noire, M. musicola, agent de la maladie de Sigatoka ou cercosporiose jaune [...]

OBS

La «maladie de Sigatoka» fait habituellement référence à la «Sigatoka jaune» ou «cercosporiose jaune». Lorsqu'il s'agit de la cercosporiose noire, les auteurs vont habituellement parler de «Sigatoka noire» ou «maladie des raies noires».

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
CONT

Black Sigatoka is a leaf spot disease of banana that can cut a tree's fruit production in half. The fungal disease causes dark leaf area to turn yellow and brown ... The fungus that causes black Sigatoka, Mycosphaerella fijiensis, is spread from tree to tree by wind, rain, and irrigation water.

CONT

[The] black leaf streak disease (popularly known as 'black Sigatoka'), caused by Mycosphaerella fijiensis, is the most widespread and important of three major species of leaf-spot diseases affecting banana and plantain.

OBS

The name black Sigatoka was given to the disease because it was first discovered ... in the Sigatoka Valley of Fiji.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
  • Arboriculture fruitière
CONT

[...] la cercosporiose noire (ou maladie de Sigatoka noire), causée par Mycosphaerella fijiensis, est la plus répandue et importante des trois espèces principales de maladie de tache des feuilles qui affligent la banane et la banane plantain [...]

Spanish

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