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silvery lesions on the tuber surface which result in a deterioration in skin quality. In addition to causing tuber blemish symptoms, C. coccodes also causes symptoms on stems and foliage, resulting in crop losses in some countries, and is implicated as a factor in the potato early dying disease complex.

• Reference: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-3059.2003.00793.x/abs/

Presence among species

Pathogen	Susceptible Host
Colletotrichum coccodes	Solanum tuberosum