Author(s)

Tavga Sulaiman Rashid^1,2, Kamaruzaman Sijam¹, Hayman Kakakhan Awla^1,2, Halimi Mohd Saud¹, Jugah Kadir¹

¹Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia.
²Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Salahaddin, Erbil, Iraq.

This study was conducted in order to determine the fungi and bacteria associated with tomato plants at Cameron Highlands Malaysia. The fungi which have been isolated and detected from tomato plants were: Fusarium oxysporum, F. solani, F. acuminatum, Rhizoctonia solani, Colletotrichum boninense, C. acutatum and Phoma destructiva. The bacteria which have been isolated and detected from tomato plants were: Ralstonia solanacearum, Xanthomonas vesicatoria, X. gardneri and Pseudomonas syringae. While the most pathogenic fungi were C. boninense, P. destructive and F. oxysporum with the disease incidence (89.6%, 86.6%, 85.6%) respectively, the most pathogenic bacteria were X. vesicatoria and R. solanacearum with the disease incidence (96.6% and 87.6%) respectively.

Lycopersicon esculentum, Pathogen Isolation and Molecular Identification

Rashid, T. , Sijam, K. , Awla, H. , Saud, H. and Kadir, J. (2016) Pathogenicity Assay and Molecular Identification of Fungi and Bacteria Associated with Diseases of Tomato in Malaysia. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 7, 949-957. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2016.76090.