Alternaria mali (leaf spot: apple)

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Title Symptoms Caption Alternaria blotch on Delicious apple leaf. Copyright T.B. Sutton	Symptoms	Alternaria blotch on Delicious apple leaf.	T.B. Sutton
Title Symptoms Caption Progressive development of Alternaria blotch across leaves on a shoot of Delicious apple. Copyright T.B. Sutton	Symptoms	Progressive development of Alternaria blotch across leaves on a shoot of Delicious apple.	T.B. Sutton

Identity

Preferred Scientific Name

• Alternaria mali

Preferred Common Name

• leaf spot: apple

International Common Names

• English: cork spot: apple; storage rot: apple
• Spanish: manchas foliares del manzano
• French: taches foliaires du pommier

Local Common Names

• Germany: Blattfleckenkrankheit: Apfel

EPPO code

• ALTEMA (Alternaria mali)

Taxonomic Tree

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Fungi
•         Phylum: Ascomycota
•             Subphylum: Pezizomycotina
•                 Class: Dothideomycetes
•                     Subclass: Pleosporomycetidae
•                         Order: Pleosporales
•                             Family: Pleosporaceae
•                                 Genus: Alternaria
•                                     Species: Alternaria mali

Distribution Table

The distribution in this summary table is based on all the information available. When several references are cited, they may give conflicting information on the status. Further details may be available for individual references in the Distribution Table Details section which can be selected by going to Generate Report.

Host plants/Plants Affected

List of Symptoms

Natural Enemies

References

CABI/EPPO, 1998. Distribution maps of quarantine pests for Europe (edited by Smith IM, Charles LMF). Wallingford, UK: CAB International, xviii + 768 pp.

EPPO, 2014. PQR database. Paris, France: European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization. http://www.eppo.int/DATABASES/pqr/pqr.htm

Filajdic N, Sutton TB, 1991. Identification and distribution of Alternaria mali on apples in North Carolina and susceptibility of different varieties of apples to Alternaria blotch. Plant Disease, 75(10):1045-1048.

Hanif S, Anjum T, Hafeez R, Akram W, Ali A, Hassan F, 2016. First report of Alternaria mali causing core rot of apple in Pakistan. Plant Disease, 100(8):1784. http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/loi/pdis

Ozgonen H, Karaca G, 2006. First report of Alternaria mali causing necrotic leaf spot of apples in Turkey. Plant Pathology, 55(4):578. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-3059.2006.01372.x

Roberts JW, 1914. Experiments with apple leaf-spot fungi. Journal of Agricultural Research, 2(1):57-66.

Distribution Maps

• = Present, no further details
• = Evidence of pathogen
• = Widespread
• = Last reported
• = Localised
• = Presence unconfirmed
• = Confined and subject to quarantine
• = See regional map for distribution within the country
• = Occasional or few reports

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