Monilinia laxa on Stone Fruits in Iraq. H. K. Abbas, Department of Biology, University of Sulaimaniyah, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq. I. S. Damirdagh, Department of Biology, University of Sulaimaniyah, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, A. H. El-Behadli, Department of Plant Protection, University of Baghdad, Abu-Ghraib, Iraq, and J. M. Ogawa, Visiting Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616. Plant Dis. 65:916-917. Accepted for publication 2 March 1981. Copyright 1981 American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/PD-65-916.

Monilinia laxa is reported for the first time in northern Iraq. During January 1979, sporodochia of this fungus were observed on blighted blossoms and twigs of almond and peach trees in northern Iraq. Both almond and peach isolates were pathogenic on blossoms, twigs, and fruit of almond, apricot, peach, and plum. The brown rot pathogen was not found in orchards of apricot, peaches, and plums in central Iraq.