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Solanum melongena is a popular and edible vegetable crop of Pakistan. Outbreak of irregular necrotic leaf spots with darker margins was observed during a survey of experimental station of Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. Initially the morphological identification was executed by studying the micro and macroscopic characters of pathogen. On these bases, pathogen was identified as Cladosporium cladosporioides. In genetic characterization primers ITS1/ITS4 amplified ~650bp DNA fragment of total genomic DNA. BLAST analysis of region (KY290222) exhibited 99% similarity with many strains of C. cladosporioides present in GenBank. The healthy leaves of S. melongena were further exposed to spores of C. clasosporioides to confirm its pathogenicity.

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