Host range and geographic distribution of Bipolaris species pathogenic to Pennisetum species.
Species |
Host range |
Geographic distribution |
B. australiensis |
Chloris, Cymbopogon, Cynodon, Hordeum, Oryza, Pennisetum, Saccharum, Sorghum, Zea |
Australia, Egypt, India, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Libya, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Zimbabwe |
B. bicolor |
Andropogon, Apluda, Bracharia, Cymbopogon, Eleusine, Eragrostis, Melanocenchris, Oryza, Panicum, Paspalum, Pennisetum, Setaria, Sorghum, Triticum, Urochloa, Zea, Zizania |
Australia, Brazil, Canada, East & West Africa, Ethiopia, India, Ivory Coast, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Yugoslavia, USA, Zimbabwe |
B. cynodontis |
Cynodon, Agropyron, Axonopus, Dactyloctenium, Hordeum, Oryza, Panicum, Pennisetum, Triticum, Zea |
Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, India, Israel, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Spain, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, USA, USSR, Zimbabwe |
B. hawaiiensis |
Andropogon, Avena, Cenchrus, Chloris, Cynodon, Desmostachya, Digitaria, Eleusine, Hordeum, Oryza, Pennisetum, Saccharum, Setaria, Sorghum, Triticum, Zea |
Australia, Burma, Cuba, Ethiopia, Egypt, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, USA (Hawaii), Zambia |
B. nodulosa |
Digitaria, Eleusine, Eragrostis, Pennisetum |
Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Malawi, Mauritius, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philipines, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, USA, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
B. setariae |
Echinochloa, Eleusine, Eragrostis, Panicum, Pennisetum, Setaria |
Australia, Europe, America, Ethiopia, India, Sierra Leone, Taiwan, Uganda, Venezuela |
B. spicifera |
Agrostis, Avena, Cynodon, Cymbopogon, Dactylis, Desmostachya, Eleusine, Holcus, Hordeum, Oryza, Panicum, Pennisetum, Phleum, Poa, Saccharum, Sorghum, Triticum, Zea |
Africa, America, Asia, Australia & Oceania, West Indies |
B. colocasiae |
Cymbopogon, Colocasia, Pennisetum, Triticum/Hordeum |
India |
B. indica |
Panicum, Pennisetum, Portulaca |
Australia, India, China, Egypt, South Africa |
B. mediocris |
Pennisetum |
Ethiopia, Guinea, South Africa |
B. papendorfii |
Pennisetum, Setaria, Sorghum, Triticum |
Australia, Egypt, India, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe |
B. sacchari |
Cynodon, Saccharum, Panicum, Pennisetum |
Africa, America, Asia, Australasia and Oceania, Europe (Italy, Madeira) |
B. urochloae |
Panicum, Pennisetum, Triticum, Urochloa, Zea |
Australia, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, South Africa, West Germany, Zimbabwe |
B. zeae |
Alloteropsis, Cenchrus, Imperata, Pennisetum, Triticum, Zea |
Australia, Brazil, India |
Information derived from Sivanesan (1987). Not all Pennisetum hosts are P. glaucum.