ABSTRACT
Diseases of vanilla crop caused by pathogenic fungi have been reported ever since vanilla was commercially cultivated. In vanilla-producing countries such as Indonesia, Madagascar, India, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, diseases caused by fungi are signi cant constraints to the cultivation of this plant. Until now several fungal genera have been reported to infect vanilla, including Fusarium, Phytophthora, Sclerotium, and Colletotrichum. These attack or infect the stems, roots, leaves, shoots, and fruit of vanilla. However, the disease caused by Fusarium is the most serious and has resulted in crop devastation of epidemic proportion in vanilla farms or plantations in many of the producing countries.
