Abstract
Several ripe jack fruits, harvested from a row of trees grown along the wayside in a 150 acre-fruit cultivation in Madatugama (off Dambulla, Central Province, Sri Lanka), were observed with large, up to about 15 cm diameter, blackish and isolated multiple lesions on the syncarp or the outer peel in June 2018. A black color fungus, associated with the diseased syncarp tissues and inner fruitlets underneath the lesions, was isolated on PDA and identified as Lasiodiplodia theobromae (Pat.) Griffon and Maubl.≡ Botryodiplodia theobromae Pat. The disease was diagnosed as Lasiodiplodia fruit rot. This is the first report of the Lasiodiplodia fruit disease in jackfruit in Sri Lanka.
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