Bamboo is an important raw material
in our villages for a wide range of uses.
Bamboo is grown in small groves in village
homesteads. For the last few years a disease
of village grown bamboos has caused
substantial damage. Rahman (1978) described
some aspects of the symptoms and isolated
Coniothyrium fuckelii as the dominant
associated fungus. Pathogenicity tests with C.
fuckelii on Bambusa balcooa at Rajshahi
in 1979 did not yield any infection (Rahman,
unpublished data). Review of literature
on C. fuckelii did not reveal any report
that the fungus was a pathogen. Isolation
of other fungi was inconclusive (Rahman,
1978), but the scattered distribution of