Diseases of Lentil
(Lens culinaris Medik.)

M. N. Khare, primary collator (last update 6/25/96)

Alternaria blight

Alternaria alternata (Fries) Keissler

Alternaria sp.

Anthracnose

Colletotrichum lindemuthianum (Sacc. & Magnus) Briosi & Cavara

Colletotrichum truncatum (Schwein.) Andrus & Moore

Aphanomyces root rot

Aphanomyces euteiches C. Drechsler

Ascochyta blight

Ascochyta fabae Speg. f. sp. lentis Gossen, Sheard, Beauchamp & Morrall

= Ascochyta lentis Bond. & Vassil.

(teleomorph: Didymella sp.)

Bean yellow mosaic

Bean yellow mosaic virus

Black root rot

Fusarium solani (Mart.) Sacc.

Black streak root rot

Thielaviopsis basicola (Berk. & Broome) Ferraris

Botrytis gray mold

Botrytis cinerea Pers.:Fr.

Broad bean mottle

Broad bean mottle virus

Broad bean stain

Broad bean stain virus

Broomrape

Orobanche aegyptiaca Pers.

Orobanche crenata Forsk.

Orobanche ranwsa L.

Cercospora leaf spot

Cercospora cruenta Sacc.

Cercospora lensii Sharma, Mishra & Jain

Cercospora zonata Winter

Collar rot

Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc.

(teleomorph: Athelia rolfsii (Curzi) Tu & Kimbrough

= Corticium rolfsii (Curzi)

Cucumber mosaic

Cucumber mosaic virus

Cylindrosporium leaf spot and stem canker

Cylindrosporium sp.

Dodder

Cuscuta hyalina Roth.

Downy mildew

Peronospora lentis Gäumann

Peronospora viciae (Berk.) Casp.

Dry root rot

Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goidanich

= Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler

Fusarium wilt

Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht.: Fr. f. sp. lentis Vasudeva and Srinivasan

Helminthosporium leaf spot

Helminthosporium sp.

Leaf rot

Choanephora sp.

Leaf yellowing

Cladosporium herbarum (Pers.) Link

Lentil yellows

Bean (pea) leaf roll virus

Beet Western yellows virus

Subterranean clover red leaf virus

Mosaic

Alfalfa mosaic virus

Nematodes (Parasitic):

Cyst nematode

Heterodera ciceri Vovlas, Greco & Di Vito

Reniform nematode

Rotylenchulus reniformis Linford & Oliveira

Root knot nematode

Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid & White) Chitwood

Meloidogyne javanica Treub (Chitwood)

Root lesion mematode

Pratylenchus spp.

Stem nematode

Ditylenchus dipsaci (Kühn) Filipjev

Ozonium wilt

Ozonium texanum Neal and Wester. var. parasiticum Thirum.

Pea seedborne mosaic

Pea seedborne mosaic virus

Phoma leaf spot

Phoma medicaginis Malbr. & Roum.

Powdery mildew

Erysiphe pisi DC.

= Erysiphe polygoni DC.

Leveillula taurica (Lev.) Arnaud

= Leveillula leguminosarum f. sp. lentis

(anamorph: Oidiopsis taurica (Lev.) Salmon)

Pythium root and seedling rot

Pythium aphanidermatum (Edson) Fitzpatrick

Pythium ultimum Trow

Rust

Uromyces craccae Const.

Uromyces viciae-fabae (Pers.) Schroet.

= Uromyces fabae (Pers.) de Bary

Sclerotinia stem rot

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary

Stemphylium blight

Stemphylium botryosum Wallr.

(teleomorph: Pleospora tarda Simmons)

Stemphylium sarciniforme (Cavara) Wiltshire

Wet root rot

Rhizoctonia solani Kühn

teleomorph: Thanatephorus cucumeris (Frank) Donk)