Foliar, fruit and soilborne diseases

Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of diseases that have been or could be particularly significant to avocado production, i.e. algal spot, anthracnose, Armillaria root rot, bacterial canker, bacterial blast, bacterial soft rot, blackstreak, Cercospora spot, Dothiorella/Colletotrichum fruit rot complex, 'Duke 6' stem pitting, Phytophthora cankers, Phytophthora root rot, scab, sooty blotch, sooty mould, stem-end rot, sunblotch, Verticillium wilt, and white root rot (Rosellinia root rot). The symptoms, epidemiology, causal organism(s) and control for each disease are also discussed.