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Pests associated with the fruit pathway are the determining factor in market access negotiations. Unconfirmed records of the occurrence and distribution of a pest in a country can lead to disputes. A report published in 1980 indicated that  Monilinia fructicola  is present in Zimbabwe and therefore hindering both market access and negotiations for access to new export markets for fresh stone fruit. To confirm this report, as stone fruit exports are an important foreign exchange earner for Zimbabwe, detection surveys were conducted in 2019 in the stone fruit production areas. The identities of fungal isolates were verified by using morphological and molecular characterisation. None of the fungal isolates tested positive for  Monilinia  species. This study confirmed that  M .  fructicola  is not present in Zimbabwe and that stone fruit rot in Zimbabwe is not caused by  Monilinia  species. Therefore, the status of  M. fructicola  in Zimbabwe can be reported as: ‘Absent: pest records invalid’.

Monilinia fructicola is not the causal agent of stone fruit rot in Zimbabwe