List of sweetpotato diseases

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This article is a list of diseases of sweetpotatoes (Ipomoea batatas).

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[edit] Bacterial diseases

Bacterial diseases
Bacterial stem and root rot Erwinia chrysanthemi
Bacterial wilt Pseudomonas solanacearum
Crown gall Agrobacterium tumefaciens

[edit] Fungal diseases

Fungal diseases
Alternaria leaf spot and stem blight Alternaria spp.
Alternaria storage rot Alternaria spp.
Black rot Ceratocystis fimbriata

Chalara sp. [anamorph]

Blue mold rot Penicillium spp.
Cercospora leaf spot Cercospora spp.

C. ipomoeae = C. bataticola

Charcoal rot Macrophomina phaseolina
Chlorotic leaf distortion Fusarium lateritium

Gibberella baccata [teleomorph]

Circular spot Sclerotium rolfsii

Athelia rolfsii [teleomorph]

Dry rot Diaporthe phaseolorum = D. batatatis

Phomopsis phaseoli [anamorph]

End rot Fusarium spp.

F. solani
Nectria haematococca [teleomorph]

Foot rot Plenodomas destruens
Fusarium root rot and stem canker Fusarium solani
Fusarium wilt (stem rot) Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. batatas
Gray mold rot Botrytis cinerea

Botryotinia fuckeliana [teleomorph]

Java black rot Lasiodiplodia theobromae = Diplodia gossypina
Leaf mold Choanephora cucurbitarum
Mottle necrosis Pythium spp.

P. scleroteichum
P. ultimum
Phytophthora spp.

Phyllosticta leaf blight Phomopsis ipomeae-batatas = Phyllosticta batatas
Phymatotrichum root rot (cotton root rot) Phymatotrichopsis omnivora = Phymatotrichum omnivorum
Pink root Phoma terrestris = Pyrenochaeta terrestris
Punky rot Trichoderma spp.

T. koningii

Rhizoctonia stem canker (sprout rot) Rhizoctonia solani

Thanatephorus cucumeris [teleomorph]

Rhizopus soft rot Rhizopus spp.

R. stolonifer

Rootlet rot Fusarium solani

Pythium spp.
P. ultimum
Rhizoctonia solani
Streptomyces ipomoeae

Rust, red Coleosporium ipomoeae
Rust, white Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae
Scab, leaf and stem Sphaceloma batatas

Elsinoe batatas [teleomorph]

Southern blight

Sclerotial blight

Sclerotium rolfsii
Scurf Monilochaetes infuscans
Septoria leaf spot Septoria bataticola
Storage rot Epicoccum spp.

Fusarium solani
Mucor racemosus
Sclerotinia spp.

Surface rot Fusarium oxysporum

F. solani

Violet root rot Helicobasidium mompa

[edit] Miscellaneous diseases and disorders

Miscellaneous diseases and disorders
False broomrape Uncharacterized
Streptomyces soil rot (pox) Streptomyces ipomoeae

[edit] Nematodes, parasitic

Nematodes, parasitic
Brown ring of roots (bulb and stem nematode) Ditylenchus dipsaci

D. destructor

Burrowing Radopholus similis
Dagger Xiphinema spp.

X. americanum

Lesion Pratylenchus brachyurus

P. coffeae

Pin Paratylenchus spp.
Reniform Rotylenchulus reniformis
Root-knot Meloidogyne spp.

M. arenaria
M. hapla
M. incognita
M. javanica

Spiral Helicotylenchus spp.
Sting Belonolaimus longicaudatus
Stubby-root Paratrichodorus spp.

P. minor

Stunt Tylenchorhynchus spp.

[edit] Viral and viroid diseases

(Also a mycoplasmalike organism [MLO])

Viral and viroid diseases
Feathery mottle Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV)
Internal cork Internal cork strain of sweet potato feathery mottlevirus (SPFMV-IC)
Latent virus Sweet potato latent virus (SPLV)
Little leaf (proliferation disease) MLO
Mild mottle Sweet potato mild mottle virus (SPMMV)
Russet crack Russet crack strain of sweet potato feathery mottlevirus (SPFMV-RC)
Sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) Sweet potato feathery mottlevirus and an uncharacterized whitefly-transmitted agent
Yellow dwarf Sweet potato yellow dwarf virus (SPYDV)

[edit] References