**1.3 Safed musli (***Chlorophytum borivilianum***)**

Leaf blight disease caused by *A. alternata* [11] and *Colletotrichum chlorophytumi* [12]**;** red spot disease by unidentified pathogen [11]; root rot disease by a *Rhizoctonia solani, Aspergillus flavus*, *Fusarium oxysporum* complex [13] and *Haemofonectira haematococca* [14]; and anthracnose disease by *Colletotrichum chlorophyti* [15] are the major diseases reported so far in *C. borivilianum.* Leaf spot disease in this plant by the pathogen *A. alternata* was observed in Bangalore during March (**Figure 3**).
