[EN] During the last five years a decline of table grape plants has been noticed in nurseries, young plantations
and vineyards of the Northeastern region of Brazil, where the management systems for grapevine production
are adapted to the specific environmental conditions of a tropical viticulture. Samples of table grape plants showing
decline symptoms were obtained from grapevine nurseries, young plantations and vineyards located in the
São Francisco, Assú and Siriji Valleys in 2010, and were subjected to fungal isolation. Grapevine trunk pathogens
were identified using morphological and molecular methods. Species recovered included Botryosphaeria mamane,
Campylocarpon fasciculare, C. pseudofasciculare, Lasiodiplodia crassipora, L. parva, L. pseudotheobromae, L. theobromae,
Neofusicoccum parvum, Phaeoacremonium aleophilum, Pm. parasiticum and Phaeomoniella chlamydospora. They are all
reported for the first time on grapevine in Brazil, with the exception of L. theobromae. Moreover, Botryosphaeria
mamane, Lasiodiplodia parva and L. pseudotheobromae are reported for the first time on grapevine, and C. fasciculare is
reported for the first time on the American continent.This research has been performed within the Programme VLC/Campus, Microcluster IViSoCa (Innovation for a Sustainable Viticulture and Quality), and was financially supported by the Project RTA2010- 00009-C03-03 (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, INIA, Spain), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and
by CAPES (Project 203/2009 - International Cooperation CAPES-Brazil/DGU-Spain). We are thankful to CAPES (Brazil) for the research fellowships granted to K. C. Correia and S. J. Michereff.Correia, KC.; Saraiva Camara, MP.; Guimaraes Barbosa, MA.; Sales, RJ.; Agustí Brisach, C.; Gramaje, D.; León Santana, M.... (2013). Fungal trunk pathogens associated with table grape decline in Northeastern Brazil. Phytopathologia Mediterranea. 52(2):380-387. https://doi.org/10.14601/Phytopathol_Mediterr-11377S38038752
