title: List of asparagus diseases
text: # List of asparagus diseases
  
  This article is a list of diseases of asparagus (Asparagus officinalis).
  
  ## Fungal diseases
  
  Fungal diseases :
  
  | Anthracnose | Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Colletotrichum dematium |
  | - | - |
  | Ascochyta blight | Ascochyta asparagina |
  | Blue mold rot | Penicillium aurantiogriseum |
  | Cercospora blight | Cercospora asparagi |
  | Dead stem | Fusarium culmorum |
  | Fusarium crown and root rot | Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. asparagi Fusarium redolens Gibberella fujikuroi (mating population A) Fusarium verticillioides [anamorph] Gibberella fujikuroi (mating population D) Fusarium proliferatum [anamorph] |
  | Fusarium spear spot | Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. asparagi Fusarium redolens |
  | Gray mold shoot blight | Botrytis cinerea |
  | Leaf spot | Alternaria alternata |
  | Phomopsis blight | Phomopsis asparagi Phomopsis asparagicola Phomopsis javanica |
  | Phytophthora spear and crown rot | Phytophthora megasperma |
  | Purple spot | Pleospora herbarum Stemphylium vesicarium [anamorph] |
  | Rhizoctonia crown rot | Rhizoctonia solani Rhizoctonia sp. |
  | Rust | Puccinia asparagi |
  | Watery soft rot | Sclerotinia sclerotiorum |
  | Zopfia root rot | Zopfia rhizophila |
  
  ## Viral and viroid diseases
  
  Viral and viroid diseases :
  
  | Asparagus decline | genus Potyvirus, Asparagus 1 virus (AV-1) genus Ilarvirus, Asparagus 2 virus (AV-2) |
  | - | - |
  | Asparagus mosaic | genus Potexvirus, Asparagus 3 virus (AV-3) genus Ilarvirus, Tobacco streak virus (TSV) |
  
  ## Miscellaneous diseases and disorders
  
  Miscellaneous diseases and disorders :
  
  | Fasciation | Abiotic |
  | - | - |
  