title: Brown rot
text: # Brown rot
  
  Brown rot may refer to the following diseases:
  
  * Wood-decay fungus, fungi that digest moist wood, causing rot, includes various species that infect living trees and cured wood
  * Ralstonia solanacearum, an aerobic, non-sporing, plant pathogenic bacterium that causes brown rot in a wide range of crops
  * Monilinia fructicola, a plant pathogenic fungus, the cause of brown rot in stone fruits, such as plums, peaches, nectarines and almonds
  * Two of the Gnomoniopsis - G. smithogilvyii or G. castaneae - in chestnuts
  * Almond brown rot caused by Monilinia fructicola
  