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Didymella rabiei (chickpea blight )
Didymella rabiei
chickpea blight
Ascochyta rabiei, Mycosphaerella rabiei, Phyllosticta cicerina, Phyllosticta rabiei, Zythia rabiei
Worldwide
CA, ID, NE, ND, SD, WA
2021-04-13
fungus
Korea
Primarily a pathogen of chickpea, though pea, alfalfa and cowpea can be hosts.
DIDYRA
The pathogen is also soil borne.
3 Known Hosts
Cicer arietinum
chickpea
Yes
DIDYRA-1, DIDYRA-3
Seed as a pathway is well established and accepted
Yes
Culture plate Incubation
Method described in the CABI, 2019. Method has not been validated or standardized.
DIDYRA-1, DIDYRA-3
Seed Treatments with common fungicides effective (benomyl, thiabendazole with captan.  
Partial resistance exists. Crop rotation and field fungicides generally control the disease.
DIDYLY-1, DIDYRA-3
DIDYRA-1
Didymella rabiei In: Crop Protection Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. www.cabi.org/cpc.
DIDYRA-3
Kaiser WJ, Hannan RM, 1988. Seed transmission of Ascochyta rabiei in chickpea and its control by seed-treatment fungicides. Seed Science and Technology 16: 625–637.
DIDYLY-1
Phytophthora sojae. In: Crop Protection Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. www.cabi.org/cpc.
Medicago sativa
alfalfa
No
Though alfalfa can be a host for the pathogen, it is not considered to be an important host or an important disease of alfalfa. No references found indicating that alfalfa seed is a pathway.
Pisum sativum
pea
No
Though pea can be a host for the pathogen, it is not considered to be an important host or an important disease of pea. No references found indicating that pea seed is a pathway.
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