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List of diseases:

Ascomycota (other orders)
Ascomycota - Dothideomycetes
Ascomycota - Leotiomycetes
Ascomycota - Sordariomycetes
Bacteria
Basidiomycota
Other fungal-like organisms
Other plant diseases
Plant parasitic nematodes
Plant viruses

(Detailed information on all pests, diseases and weeds can be found in the downloadable Excel files)
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Ascomycota (other orders):
Aspergillus candidus
Aspergillus flavus (plant/storage disease)
Aspergillus nomius
Aspergillus parasiticus
Cadophora luteo-olivacea
Corynelia uberata
Metulocladosporiella musae
Nalanthamala psidii
Neoscytalidium dimidiatum
Penicillium (anamorphic genus)
Penicillium brevicompactum
Penicillium chrysogenum
Penicillium citrinum
Penicillium crustosum
Penicillium digitatum
Penicillium expansum
Penicillium glabrum
Penicillium italicum
Penicillium ramulosum
Phaeomoniella chlamydospora
Pseudophaeomoniella globosa
Sporothrix phasma
Stenocarpella macrospora
Stenocarpella maydis

Ascomycota - Dothideomycetes:
Alternaria alternata
Alternaria arborescens
Alternaria bataticola
Alternaria cassiae
Alternaria citri
Alternaria infectoria
Alternaria mali
Alternaria solani
Alternaria tenuissima
Amycosphaerella africana
Ascochyta (anamorphic genus)
Austroafricana parva
Bipolaris cookei
Boeremia exigua
Botryosphaeria dothidea
Brunneosphaerella protearum
Catenulostroma elginense
Cercospora zeae-maydis
Cercospora zeina
Cladosporium cladosporioides
Cladosporium perangustum
Cladosporium sphaerospermum
Cladosporium tenuissimum
Curvularia clavata
Curvularia lunata
Didymella arachidicola
Didymella pomorum
Didymosphaeria rubi-ulmifolii
Diplodia africana
Diplodia sapinea
Diplodia scrobiculata
Diplodia seriata
Dothistroma septosporum
Elsinoë australis
Elsinoë fawcettii
Elsinoë leucospermi
Elsinoë phaseoli
Elsinoë punicae
Epicoccum sorghinum
Exserohilum turcicum
Helminthosporium syzygii
Lasiodiplodia crassispora
Lasiodiplodia gonubiensis
Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae
Lasiodiplodia theobromae
Mycosphaerella phaseolorum
Neocatenulostroma microsporum
Neofusicoccum australe
Neofusicoccum cordaticola
Neofusicoccum eucalyptorum
Neofusicoccum kwambonambiense
Neofusicoccum luteum
Neofusicoccum mangiferae
Neofusicoccum mediterraneum
Neofusicoccum parvum
Neofusicoccum protearum
Neofusicoccum ribis
Neofusicoccum stellenboschiana
Neofusicoccum vitifusiforme
Pallidocercospora irregulariramosa
Paraconiothyrium variabile
Parapallidocercospora colombiensis
Parastagonospora nodorum
Phyllosticta citricarpa
Pseudocercospora epispermogonia
Pseudocercospora eucalyptorum
Pseudocercospora fijiensis
Pseudocercospora griseola
Pseudocercospora musae
Pseudocercospora purpurea
Pseudocercospora stromatosa
Pseudoteratosphaeria ohnowa
Pseudozasmidium vietnamense
Pyrenophora seminiperda
Pyrenophora teres
Ramulariopsis gossypii
Sphaeropsis (anamorphic genus)
Teratosphaeria destructans
Teratosphaeria epicoccoides
Teratosphaeria juvenalis
Teratosphaeria nubilosa
Teratosphaeria verrucosa
Teratosphaeria zuluensis
Uwebraunia commune
Uwebraunia dekkeri
Venturia inaequalis
Xenoteratosphaeria jonkershoekensis

Ascomycota - Leotiomycetes:
Blumeria graminis
Botrytis cinerea
Botrytis pseudocinerea
Erysiphe quercicola
Leveillula taurica
Monilinia laxa
Neoerysiphe galeopsidis
Oculimacula yallundae
Phlyctema vagabunda
Rhynchosporium commune

Ascomycota - Sordariomycetes:
Amphilogia gyrosa
Berkeleyomyces basicola
Berkeleyomyces rouxiae
Biscogniauxia rosacearum
Bisifusarium delphinoides
Bisifusarium lunatum
Calonectria colhounii
Calonectria pauciramosa
Campylocarpon fasciculare
Campylocarpon pseudofasciculare
Celoporthe dispersa
Celoporthe fontana
Celoporthe woodiana
Ceratocystis albifundus
Ceratocystis fimbriata
Ceratocystis pirilliformis
Chalaropsis thielavioides
Chrysoporthe austroafricana
Chrysoporthe cubensis
Cladobotryum protrusum
Claviceps africana
Claviceps purpurea
Colletotrichum acutatum
Colletotrichum asianum
Colletotrichum boninense
Colletotrichum cigarro
Colletotrichum cliviicola
Colletotrichum coccodes
Colletotrichum dematium
Colletotrichum fructicola
Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
Colletotrichum karstii
Colletotrichum lupini
Colletotrichum theobromicola
Colletotrichum truncatum
Coniella eucalyptorum
Coniochaeta africana
Coniochaeta fasciculata
Coniochaeta prunicola
Cryptosphaeria multicontinentalis
Cryptovalsa ampelina
Cylindrocarpon (anamorphic genus)
Cylindrocladiella (genus)
Cylindrocladiella parva
Cylindrocladiella peruviana
Cytospora carpobroti
Cytospora eucalypticola
Cytospora punicae
Dactylonectria macrodidyma
Dactylonectria novozelandica
Dactylonectria pauciseptata
Dactylonectria torresensis
Dematophora necatrix
Diaporthe ambigua
Diaporthe ampelina
Diaporthe amygdali
Diaporthe aspalathi
Diaporthe australafricana
Diaporthe cynaroidis
Diaporthe eres
Diaporthe foeniculacea
Diaporthe foeniculina
Diaporthe heterophyllae
Diaporthe infecunda
Diaporthe nebulae
Diaporthe novem
Diaporthe perjuncta
Diaporthe sojae
Eutypa lata
Eutypella citricola
Eutypella microtheca
Fusarium (genus)
Fusarium acuminatum
Fusarium ananatum
Fusarium avenaceum
Fusarium boothii
Fusarium callistephi
Fusarium carminascens
Fusarium chlamydosporum
Fusarium circinatum
Fusarium cortaderiae
Fusarium crown and root rot
Fusarium culmorum
Fusarium equiseti
Fusarium fabacearum
Fusarium globosum
Fusarium glycines
Fusarium graminearum
Fusarium incarnatum
Fusarium languescens
Fusarium mangiferae
Fusarium meridionale
Fusarium napiforme
Fusarium nelsonii
Fusarium nirenbergiae
Fusarium nygamai
Fusarium oxysporum
Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. basilici
Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cepae
Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. melonis
Fusarium phialophorum
Fusarium poae
Fusarium proliferatum
Fusarium pseudograminearum
Fusarium sacchari
Fusarium sambucinum
Fusarium sporotrichioides
Fusarium sterilihyphosum
Fusarium subglutinans
Fusarium temperatum
Fusarium thapsinum
Fusarium udum
Fusarium verticillioides
Gaeumannomyces graminis
Gliomastix cerealis
Grosmannia alacris
Holocryphia capensis
Holocryphia eucalypti
Huntiella moniliformis
Ilyonectria destructans
Ilyonectria liriodendri
Immersiporthe knoxdaviesiana
Leptographium galeiforme
Neocosmospora citricola
Neocosmospora euwallaceae
Neocosmospora phaseoli
Neocosmospora solani
Neocosmospora vasinfecta
Ophiostoma (genus)
Ophiostoma floccosum
Ophiostoma ips
Ophiostoma quercus
Ophiostoma splendens
Ophiostoma stenoceras
Ophiostoma tsotsi
Panama disease of banana
Phaeoacremonium (anamorphic genus)
Phaeoacremonium africanum
Phaeoacremonium australiense
Phaeoacremonium austroafricanum
Phaeoacremonium fraxinopennsylvanicum
Phaeoacremonium fuscum
Phaeoacremonium griseo-olivaceum
Phaeoacremonium griseorubrum
Phaeoacremonium inflatipes
Phaeoacremonium iranianum
Phaeoacremonium italicum
Phaeoacremonium krajdenii
Phaeoacremonium minimum
Phaeoacremonium pallidum
Phaeoacremonium parasiticum
Phaeoacremonium prunicolum
Phaeoacremonium scolyti
Phaeoacremonium sicilianum
Phaeoacremonium subulatum
Phaeoacremonium venezuelense
Phaeoacremonium viticola
Phyllachora proteae
Pleurostoma richardsiae
Pseudoplagiostoma eucalypti
Seiridium neocupressi
Seiridium unicorne
Soybean sudden death syndrome
Thielaviopsis radicicola
Truncatella angustata
Verticillium dahliae

Bacteria:
Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Burkholderia glumae
Clavibacter insidiosus
Dickeya (genus)
Dickeya zeae
Leifsonia xyli
Liberibacter africanus
Pantoea allii
Pantoea ananatis
Pectobacterium atrosepticum
Pectobacterium carotovorum
Pectobacterium wasabiae
Pseudomonas syringae
Pseudomonas syringae pv. allii
Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola
Pseudomonas syringae pv. porri
Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae
Pseudomonas viridiflava
Ralstonia solanacearum
Streptomyces scabiei
Streptomyces stelliscabiei
Xanthomonas (genus)
Xanthomonas albilineans
Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis
Xanthomonas arboricola pv. zantedeschiae
Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. punicae
Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris
Xanthomonas citri pv. mangiferaeindicae
Xanthomonas phaseoli
Xanthomonas translucens
Xanthomonas vasicola
Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum
Xylophilus ampelinus

Basidiomycota:
Amylostereum areolatum
Armillaria fuscipes
Armillaria gallica
Armillaria mellea
Athelia rolfsii
Austropuccinia psidii
Binucleate Rhizoctonia
Coniodictyum chevalieri
Erythricium salmonicolor
Ganoderma destructans
Inonotus setuloso-croceus
Macruropyxis fulva
Melampsora larici-populina
Melampsora medusae
Muribasidiospora indica
Phakopsora myrtacearum
Phakopsora nishidana
Phakopsora pachyrhizi
Puccinia cannae
Puccinia coronata
Puccinia graminis
Puccinia helianthi
Puccinia hemerocallidis
Puccinia hordei
Puccinia melanocephala
Puccinia menthae
Puccinia sorghi
Puccinia striiformis
Puccinia triticina
Puccinia xanthii
Pucciniastrum minimum
Quambalaria eucalypti
Rhizoctonia AG-A
Rhizoctonia AG-F
Rhizoctonia AG-I
Rhizoctonia AG-K
Rhizoctonia AG-R
Rhizoctonia fragariae
Rhizoctonia solani
Schizophyllum commune
Sporisorium scitamineum
Sporisorium transvaalense
Tilletia indica
Uredo cajani
Uromyces appendiculatus
Uromycladium acaciae

Other fungal-like organisms:
Albugo candida
Globisporangium heterothallicum
Globisporangium irregulare
Globisporangium mamillatum
Globisporangium spinosum
Globisporangium sylvaticum
Globisporangium ultimum
Hyaloperonospora parasitica
Peronospora (genus)
Peronospora sparsa
Phytophthora alticola
Phytophthora cactorum
Phytophthora capensis
Phytophthora capsici
Phytophthora cinnamomi
Phytophthora citricola
Phytophthora citrophthora
Phytophthora cryptogea
Phytophthora drechsleri
Phytophthora frigida
Phytophthora infestans
Phytophthora lacustris
Phytophthora multivesiculata
Phytophthora multivora
Phytophthora nicotianae
Phytophthora niederhauserii
Phytophthora plurivora
Phytopythium vexans
Plasmopara halstedii
Plasmopara viticola
Pustula helianthicola
Pythium (genus)
Pythium acanthicum
Pythium aphanidermatum
Pythium aristosporum
Pythium arrhenomanes
Pythium coloratum
Pythium diclinum
Pythium myriotylum
Pythium perplexum
Pythium recalcitrans
Spongospora subterranea

Other plant diseases:
16SrI phytoplasma group
Australian grapevine viroid
Avocado sunblotch viroid
Chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid
Citrus bark cracking viroid
Citrus dwarfing viroid
Citrus exocortis viroid
Grapevine latent viroid
Grapevine yellow speckle viroid 1
Grapevine yellow speckle viroid 2
Hop stunt viroid
Japanese grapevine viroid
Phytoplasma asteris
Phytoplasma aurantifolia
Phytoplasma pruni
Plum viroid I

Plant parasitic nematodes:
Aphelenchoides (genus)
Aphelenchoides arachidis
Bursaphelenchus leoni
Ditylenchus africanus
Globodera rostochiensis
Helicotylenchus (genus)
Helicotylenchus dihystera
Heterodera carotae
Heterodera humuli
Hirschmanniella spinicaudata
Hoplolaimus (genus)
Longidorus (genus)
Longidorus pisi
Meloidogyne (genus)
Meloidogyne arenaria
Meloidogyne chitwoodi
Meloidogyne enterolobii
Meloidogyne ethiopica
Meloidogyne fallax
Meloidogyne hapla
Meloidogyne incognita
Meloidogyne javanica
Meloidogyne kikuyensis
Meloidogyne partityla
Mesocriconema (genus)
Nanidorus minor
Paratrichodorus (genus)
Paratrichodorus lobatus
Paratylenchus (genus)
Pratylenchus (genus)
Pratylenchus bolivianus
Pratylenchus brachyurus
Pratylenchus coffeae
Pratylenchus crenatus
Pratylenchus fallax
Pratylenchus hippeastri
Pratylenchus neglectus
Pratylenchus penetrans
Pratylenchus teres
Pratylenchus thornei
Pratylenchus vulnus
Pratylenchus zeae
Radopholus similis
Rotylenchulus (genus)
Rotylenchulus parvus
Rotylenchus unisexus
Scutellonema (genus)
Scutellonema brachyurus
Tylenchorhynchus (genus)
Tylenchulus semipenetrans
Xiphinema (genus)
Xiphinema americanum
Xiphinema elongatum
Xiphinema zulu

Plant viruses:
African cassava mosaic virus
Alfalfa mosaic virus
Alstroemeria mosaic virus
Apple rubodvirus 2
Apple stem grooving virus
Banana bunchy top virus
Bean common mosaic virus
Bean yellow dwarf virus
Bean yellow mosaic virus
Beet necrotic yellow vein virus
Beet pseudo-yellows virus
Broad bean wilt virus 1
Cauliflower mosaic virus
Chrysanthemum virus B
Citrus leprosis virus N
Citrus tristeza virus
Coguvirus eburi
Cowpea aphid-borne mosaic virus
Cowpea Moroccan aphid-borne mosaic virus
Cucumber mosaic virus
Cynodon chlorotic streak virus
East African cassava mosaic virus
Fig leaf mottle-associated virus 1
Freesia sneak virus
Grapevine fanleaf virus
Grapevine fleck virus
Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 1
Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 2
Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3
Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 4
Grapevine Roditis leaf discoloration-associated virus
Grapevine rupestris stem pitting-associated virus
Grapevine Syrah virus-1
Grapevine virus A
Grapevine virus B
Grapevine virus E
Grapevine virus F
Grapevine virus N
Grapevine virus O
Groundnut ringspot virus
Groundnut rosette virus
Hop mosaic virus
Iris yellow spot virus
Lettuce big-vein associated virus
Maize associated pteridovirus
Maize streak virus
Maize yellow mosaic virus
Mirafiori lettuce big-vein virus
Moroccan watermelon mosaic virus
Morogoro maize-associated alphanucleorhabdovirus
Orchid fleck dichorhavirus
Ornithogalum mosaic virus
Pea enation mosaic virus-1
Peanut chlorotic blotch virus
Peanut mottle virus
Pepino mosaic virus
Pepo aphid-borne yellows virus
Pepper veinal mottle virus
Plum bark necrosis stem pitting-associated virus
Potato leafroll virus
Potato virus Y
Ryegrass mosaic virus
Saccharum streak virus
South African cassava mosaic virus
Soybean blotchy mosaic virus
Soybean mosaic virus
Sugarcane mosaic virus
Sugarcane streak mosaic virus
Sweet potato chlorotic fleck virus
Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus
Sweet potato feathery mottle virus
Sweet potato latent virus
Sweet potato leaf curl Sao Paulo virus
Sweet potato mild mottle virus
Sweet potato mild speckling virus
Sweet potato mosaic-associated virus
Sweet potato pakakuy virus
Sweet potato virus 2
Sweet potato virus G
Tobacco leaf curl viruses
Tobacco leaf enation virus
Tobacco mild green mosaic virus
Tobacco streak virus
Tobacco vein clearing virus
Tomato chlorosis virus
Tomato curly stunt virus
Tomato matilda virus
Tomato necrotic spot virus
Tomato spotted wilt virus
Tomato torrado virus
Watermelon mosaic virus
Wheat yellows virus
Zucchini shoestring virus
Zucchini yellow mosaic virus