Pests Advanced Search Crops Advanced Search
Pseudocochliobolus verruculosus (post-harvest rot )
Pseudocochliobolus verruculosus
post-harvest rot
Cochliobolus verruculosus, Curvularia verruculosa
Asia: Afghanistan, China, India, South Korea; North America: Cuba; Oceania: American Samoa.
Not known to occur
2025-12-26
fungus
Korea
tobacco, sugarcane, corn, zoysia grass
CURVVE
Pseudocochliobolus verruculosus is mainly associated with grasses, reported as a minor foliar pathogen or saprophyte, and occasionally involved in post-harvest decay. There is no evidence that seed is a pathway; spread is primarily via airborne or splash-dispersed conidia from plant debris.
Crops
Oryza sativa
rice
No
CURVVE-2, CABI CPC, RICH ISTA, CURVVE-4, CURVVE-5, CURVVE-6
Grain discoloration caused by this fungus has been reported; however, there is no evidence that it is rice seed is a pathway.
2025-12-26 14:18:53
CURVVE-2
Aulakh, K. 1966. Rice, a new host of Curvularia verruculosa. Plant Dis. Rept. 50:314-316
CABI CPC
Crop Protection Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. www.cabi.org/cpc.
RICH ISTA
Richardson, MJ. 1990. An Annotated List of Seedborne Diseases. International Seed Testing Association, Zurich Switzerland.
CURVVE-4
Choi, Y. J., Lee, J. S., Lee, H. B., Kim, H. J., 2018. First report of leaf blight caused by Curvularia verruculosa on zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica) in Korea.Plant Disease, 102(6) 1173-1174.
CURVVE-5
Nasir Ahmed Rajput, Hussainullah, Huo Chao, Cao JiFen, Muhammad Atiq, Rana Muhammad Atif, Abdul Mubeen Lodhi, Rehana Naz Syed, Sohaib Sarfraz, Akhtar Hameed, Zhao ZhiJian, 2020. First report of Curvularia verruculosa causing leaf spot disease of grape (Vitis vinifera) in Afghanistan.Journal of Plant Pathology, 102(4) 1337-1337.
CURVVE-6
Tsuda, M., & Ueyama, A. (1982). Pseudocochliobolus verruculosus and Variability of Conidium Morphology. Mycologia, 74(4), 563.
Zea mays
corn
No
CURVVE-1, CURVVE-3, CURVVE-6
No references found indicating that corn seed is a pathway.
2025-12-26 14:35:01
CURVVE-1
Pseudocochliobolus verruculosus. In: Crop Protection Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. www.cabi.org/cpc.
CURVVE-3
Richardson MJ, 1990. An Annotated List of Seed-borne Disease. International Seed Testing Association, Zurich, Switzerland
CURVVE-6
Tsuda, M., & Ueyama, A. (1982). Pseudocochliobolus verruculosus and Variability of Conidium Morphology. Mycologia, 74(4), 563.
Search the database