Abstract
District Turbat, Balochistan, Pakistan is famous for its stingy and delicious dates. Recently, date palm trees have been badly affected by different plant pathogens which significantly reducing yield and farmers facing heavy losses annually. During a survey of different date palm cultivation in District Turbat and surrounding areas, fruit, root and soil samples were collected. Five fungi viz., Aspergillus niger, A. flavus, Penicillium sp. Cladosporium sp. and Rhizopus sp. were isolated from fruits. Among these fungi, A. niger was dominant and isolated from all the samples. The fungus causes fruit rot disease in different date palm varieties resulting in heavy losses annually. Fungi isolated from root samples included Fusarium solani, F. oxysporum. Drechslera elisii, D. hawaiiensis, Humicola sp., Blastomyces sp., Acremonium sp., Alternaria sp., Phytophthora sp., Aspergillus niger, A. flavus and Penicillium sp. F. solani was the dominant fungus and causes sudden decline syndrome (wilt disease) in Date palm trees. The level of occurrence of this fungus was significantly high in root samples of Gokna and Kungun varieties as compared to other varieties. F. solani, A. niger A. flavus, and A. terreus were isolated from soil at higher percentage as compared to some other fungi such as Drechslera hawaiiensis, Humicola sp., F. oxysporum, Macrophomina phaseolina, Acremonium sp., Alternaria sp., Penicillium sp. and Rhizopus sp
