TAXONOMíAKingdom: FungiDivisión: AscomycotaClass: EuascomycetesOrder: DothidealesFamily: PleosporaceaeGenre: AlternariaSpecies: tenuissima

SCIENTIFIC NAME (SYNONYMS): Alternaria tenuissima (Kunze) Wiltshire, (1933)

SYNONYMY: Alternaria tenuissima f.sp. euphorbiae J.M. Krupinsky & R.J. LorenzAlternaria tenuissima var. alliicola T.Y. ZhangAlternaria tenuissima var. catharanthi T.Y. Zhang & X.F. LinAlternaria tenuissima var. godetiae Neerg.Alternaria tenuissima var. tenuissimaAlternaria tenuissima var. trachelospermicola T.Y. Zhang, X.F. Lin & W.Q. Chen Alternaria tenuissima var. verruculosa Chowdhury

COMMON NAMES

English: nailhead spot: tomato

Spanish: cabeza de clavo del tomate

French: tete de clou de la tomate

Germany: Fleckigkeit: Tomate

DISTRIBUTION

Europe Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Ukraine

Asia India Assam Bihar Haryana Jammu and Kashmir Karnataka Orissa Uttar Pradesh Pakistan

Africa Ethiopia Nigeria

North America North Carolina Oceania New Zealand

DAMAGE

Mancha foliar causada por Alternaria tenuissima Sintomatología: Foliar irregularly and sometimes circular spots of size small 4 to 8 mm in diameter approximately, chestnut brown, with margins well defined, coinciding with that reported by citrus fruit (1978),Joseph (1994) notes that Alternaria tenuissima presents conidiophores of 20-10 substructure(14) of long, 2-11 septae, 7-12 substructure(14) of conidia of substructure(14) 15-52 in length, width,

BIBLIOGRAFIA

Cabi, 2005

(Garcia Palacios Joel, 2005)Joseph, R. 1994. The Genus Alternaria Biology, Epidemiology, and Pathogenicity. APS PRESS. The American Phytopathological Society st, Paul, Minnesota. USA. 326 p.

Agrios, G. N. 1978. Plant pathology. Academic Press. New York. USA. 703 p.