| Cultivation | |
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| Culinary usage | |
| Diseases | |
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This article is a list of diseases of the sweet potato, (Ipomoea batatas).
| Bacterial diseases | |
|---|---|
| Bacter | Erwinia chrysanthemi |
| Bacterial wilt | Ralstonia solanacearum |
| Crown gall | Agrobacterium tumefaciens |
| Hairy roots | Agrobacterium rhizogenes |
| Little leaf (proliferation disease) | Phytoplasma |
| Fungal diseases | |
|---|---|
| Alternaria leaf spot and stem blight | Alternaria spp. |
| Alternaria storage rot | Alternaria spp. |
| Anthracnose[verification needed] | Colletotrichum coccodes |
| Black rot | Ceratocystis fimbriata Chalara sp. [anamorph] |
| Blue mold rot | Penicillium spp. |
| Cercospora leaf spot | Cercospora spp. Phaeoisariopsis bataticola |
| Charcoal rot | Macrophomina phaseolina |
| Chlorotic leaf distortion | Fusarium lateritium Gibberella baccata [teleomorph] |
| Circular spot | Sclerotium rolfsii Athelia rolfsii [teleomorph] |
| Dry rot | Diaporthe phaseolorum = Diaporthe batatatis |
| End rot | Fusarium spp. Fusarium solani |
| False Broom Rape | Splinterus Maximus |
| Foot rot | Plenodomus destruens |
| Fusarium root rot and stem canker | Fusarium solani |
| Fusarium wilt (stem rot) | Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. batatas |
| Gray mold rot | Botrytis cinerea Botryotinia fuckeliana [teleomorph] |
| Java black rot | Lasiodiplodia theobromae |
| Leaf mold | Choanephora cucurbitarum |
| Mottle necrosis | Pythium spp. |
| Phyllosticta leaf blight | Phomopsis ipomeae-batatas |
| Phymatotrichum root rot (cotton root rot) | Phymatotrichopsis omnivora |
| Pink root | Phoma terrestris |
| Punky rot | Trichoderma spp. |
| Rhizoctonia stem canker (sprout rot) | Rhizoctonia solani Thanatephorus cucumeris [teleomorph] |
| Rhizopus soft rot | Rhizopus spp. |
| Rootlet rot | Fusarium solani Pythium spp. |
| Rust, red | Coleosporium ipomoeae |
| Rust, white | Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae |
| Scab, leaf and stem | Sphaceloma batatas Elsinoe batatas [teleomorph] |
| Southern blight Sclerotial blight |
Sclerotium rolfsii |
| Scurf | Monilochaetes infuscans |
| Septoria leaf spot | Septoria bataticola |
| Storage rot | Epicoccum spp. |
| Surface rot | Fusarium oxysporum |
| Violet root rot | Helicobasidium mompa |
| Nematodes, parasitic | |
|---|---|
| Brown ring of roots (bulb and stem nematode) | |
| Burrowing | |
| Dagger | |
| Lesion | |
| Pin |
Paratylenchus spp. |
| Reniform | |
| Root-knot |
Meloidogyne spp. |
| Spiral |
Helicotylenchus spp. |
| Sting | |
| Stubby-root | |
| Stunt |
Tylenchorhynchus spp. |
| Viral and viroid diseases | |
|---|---|
| Feathery mottle | Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV) |
| Internal cork | Internal cork strain of Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV-IC) |
| Latent virus | Sweet potato latent virus (SPLV) |
| Mild mottle | Sweet potato mild mottle virus (SPMMV) |
| Russet crack | Russet crack strain of Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV-RC) |
| Sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) | Sweet potato feathery mottle virus and Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus [1] |
