Vegetative Compatibility Grouping of Colletotrichum kahawae in Kenya

Vegetative compatibility using nitrate nonutilizing "nit# mutants was analysed between 33 isolates of Col! letotrichum kahawae from Kenya\ one each from Ethiopia and Malawi\ one of Colletotrichum `loeosporioides and one of Colletotrichum acutatum[ Another isolate of C[ kahawae did not generate mutants and thus could not be utilized[ The results showed that all the C[ kahawae isolates\ except a white sector mutant "VCG1#\ belonged to one vegetative compatibility group "VCG3#[ The other species belonged to their own unique groups "VCGs 0 and 2#[ Implications of the results and future research needs on the subject are discussed[