PRO/PL> Black sigatoka, banana – Reunion Island: 1st rep

Other Plant Disease — Région d’outre-mer de Réunion, France
_Pseudocercospora fijiensis_, the causal agent of black Sigatoka disease of banana (Musa spp.) (BLSD), is considered to be the major economic threat for banana cultivated for export. The disease has a worldwide distribution throughout the humid tropical regions and has been previously reported in the southwest Indian Ocean area: in 1993 in Mayotte and Comoros islands, in Mauritius in 1996 and in Madagascar in 2000.
In December 2017, typical BLSD symptoms were observed in a Cavendish cv.