Pepper fruit anthracnose economically important pepper disease in Podravina region

Krajem kolovoza 2009. godine na virovitičkom se području pojavila do sada iskusnim proizvođačima povrća nepoznata bolest plodova paprike i ubrzo prouzročila velike štete na usjevima. Bolest se pojavila pred berbu paprike i na pojedinim parcelama u potpunosti uništila usjeve. Provedenim analiza utvrđeno je da se radi o antraknozi plodova paprike čiji su uzročnici gljivice iz roda Colletotrichum. Iako se zaraženih biljaka sa simptomima antraknoze plodova u usjevima paprike sporadično moglo pronaći i prethodnih godina prouzročene štete do ove godine nisu bile toliko ekonomski izražene. U radu je opisana biologija i epidemiologija patogena, simptomi bolesti te su predložene mjere suzbijanja.By the end of August 2009 in the Virovitica region, several experienced vegetable producers noticed so far an unknown pepper fruit disease that caused great damage on crops. Disease appeared during preharvest period and completely destroyed the crops on individual plots. The analysis showed that the cause was pepper fruit anthracnose caused by fungi of genus Colletotrichum. Although the infected plants with fruit anthracnose symptoms in pepper crops could be sporadically found in previous years, the damage caused was not so economically expressed until this year. This paper describes the biology and epidemiology of pathogen, symptoms and proposed plant protection measures