Fungi associated with the blighted leaf symptoms of Hevea brasiliensis in Malaysia

This article describes the fungi isolated from blighted leaf of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) tree in Malaysia. Previously, Neofusicoccum ribis (Family Botryosphaeriaceae) was reported as causal agent blight To date, there are limited studies on this particular disease Malaysia and worldwide. The current study carried out leaves displaying symptoms caused by N. different locations to discover that reside leaves. Rubber samples with were collected two fungal isolates following agar plate method subjected cultural morphological characterization. Based characterization, eight further molecular identification. Five namely SBI, SB2, SB3, SB6 SPKT1 identified ribis, one fungus (SB4) Diaporthe drenthii, another SB5 SPKT2 Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae. identification, all demonstrated similar characteristics pathogen documented a previous study.