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Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is one of the world’s most important and esteemed fruits of the tropical and subtropical countries. By the virtue of its wide range, delicious taste, superb flavour, very high nutritive and medicinal value as well as great religio-historical significance, it is called the “King of the fruits”. Mango is affected by a number of diseases at all stages of the development right from nursery to post harvest including storage and transit. Its production is drastically affected by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, is one of the most damaging pathogen cause mango anthracnose. This paper reviews the research and development of Anthracnose of mango during the precedent in relation to pathogen taxonomy, distribution, biology, disease cycle and management.
Keywords: Anthracnose, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, pathogen