Black foot disease of grapevine

Black foot disease
Causal agents: Cylindrocarpon fungi
Hosts: Vitis vinifera
EPPO code: 1CYLCG
Treatment: Pruning wound protection

Black foot disease is a grapevine trunk disease. It is caused by fungi in the genus Cylindrocarpon (C. fasciculare, C. pseudofasciculare, C. destructans, C. macrodidymum and C. obtusisporum)[1]

References

  1. Occurrence of grapevine trunk disease pathogens in rootstock mother plants in South Africa. P. H. Fourie and F. Halleen, Australasian Plant Pathology, June 2004, Volume 33, Issue 2, pages 313-315, doi:10.1071/AP04005