First report of charcoal rot caused by on potato tubers in Mauritius.

Charcoal rot, caused by , is an important disease in tropical and subtropical regions which affects a broad range of host plants, including potato ( L.). In this crop, charcoal rot can reduce the marketable quality of tubers (Arora 2012) and cause yield losses up to 88% (Somani 2007).

First report of Black Scurf caused by AG-3 on potato tubers in Mauritius.

Potato ( L.) is considered as one of the most economically important non-sugar food crops in Mauritius, with annual production of over 14,000 tonnes (Statistics Mauritius 2018). In September 2019, in a seed potato field located in St Pierre, approximately 10% of tubers showed the presence of numerous irregular-shaped black scurf lesions on the surface.