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Gibberella stilboides (bark disease of coffee )
Gibberella stilboides
bark disease of coffee
Fusarium stilboides, Fusarium lateritium var. longum, Fusarium lateritium var. stilboides, Fusarium stilboides var. minus
Africa: Kenya
Not known to occur
2025-10-27
fungus
Korea
coffee
GIBBST
Gibberella stilboides causes coffee bark disease, a soil- and wound-borne fungus in East Africa that can devastate coffee yields. It spreads mainly through wounds from pruning or mechanical damage, with no evidence of seed transmission.
1 Known Hosts
Solanum lycopersicum
tomato
No
GIBBST-2, GIBBST-3, GIBBST-4
Only one reference from Russia cited this fungus (Fusarium stilboides) as a host and found on tomato seed, but seed was artificially inoculated with this fungus. No reports of natural infection of this fungus on tomato were found.
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GIBBST-2
Farr, D.F., & Rossman, A.Y. Fungal Databases, Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, ARS, USDA. 2018, http://nt.ars-grin.gov/fungaldatabases/
GIBBST-3
Richardson MJ, 1990. An Annotated List of Seed-borne Disease. International Seed Testing Association, Zurich, Switzerland
GIBBST-4
Alworah, G. O., Ogendo, J. O., Mafurah, J. J., Gichuru, E. K., Miano, D. W., & Okumu, O. O. (2023). A Method for Selection of Coffee Varieties Resistant to Fusarium stilboides. Agronomy, 13(9), 2321.
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