Isolation and Identification of Fungal Diseases of Broad bean (Vicia faba L.) in Ain-Zara region, Tripoli - Libya

Date

2024-2

Type

Article

Journal title

مجلة القلم للعلوم الطبية والتطبيقية

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 7

Author(s)

Alya H B Duzan
AFAF ABDUALLA MOHAMED SAWEI

Pages

156 - 159

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the incidence of fungal plant diseases on faba bean in some fields located in the Ain – Zara region - Tripoli and to identify the causal agents. A total of one-hundred plants of faba bean were collected during 2020-2021 season from some local farms in Ain – Zara region Tripoli (February – April). Fungal pathogens associated with leaves, stems, pods and roots of faba bean have been isolated and identified. The most important and widespread fungal diseases observed: Chocolate leaf spot, Root rot, Anthracnose, Alternaria blight, Ascochyta blight and Sclerotinia stem rot caused by Botrytis fabae, Fusarium solani F. oxysporum, Colletotrichum spp, Alternaria alternata, Ascochyta fabae and Sclerotinia sp respectively.

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