Yellow Sigatoka, caused by Mycosphaerella musicola / Pseudocercospora musae continues to be a great problem for the banana (Musa spp.) crop in Brazil, with the causal agent presenting high pathogenic variability among the isolates of the pathogen. The objective of this work was to characterize the reaction type that has been observed among the resistant varieties. The researches have been carried out under greenhouse conditions with artificial inoculation of different isolates of M. musicola on a group of banana varieties, composed by Pacovan, Prata Anã, Thap Maeo, Caipira, Grand Naine, Terra and Pioneira. In inoculations on those varieties, involving about 38 isolates M. musicola, until now only the Terra variety, had its resistance mechanism overcome by some of the isolates. Some of these isolates were also inoculated on other genotypes not included in this relationship, such as: JV03-15, PV03-44, FHIA-01 and FHIA-18. Observing the reactions of the varieties Caipira, Thap Maeo, Pioneira, Terra, JV03-15 and PV03-44, varieties which are resistant to most of the isolates, a very similar behavior is noticed. All of them showed a reaction to powdered inoculation by the formation of barely perceptible lesions shaped like points or grooves. This reaction is similar to a hypersensitive reaction with the formation of local lesions of late visualization. The phenotypes have the characteristics of a qualitative answer, involving a hipersensibility mechanism.
Musa spp; Mycosphaerella musicola
