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Pseudocercosporella anguioides, a weakly pathogenic fungus associated with eyespot in winter wheat at a site in England
Author(s) -
BATEMAN G. L.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
plant pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.928
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-3059
pISSN - 0032-0862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1988.tb02077.x
Subject(s) - eyespot , biology , fungus , crop , pathogen , winter wheat , fungi imperfecti , botany , fungal pathogen , poaceae , agronomy , horticulture , microbiology and biotechnology
Pseudocercosporella anguioides is reported for the first time from Britain. Isolates were made from the leaf sheaths of four plants of a sample of 2716 with suspected eyespot lesions taken in April 1986 from a winter wheat crop. The eyespot pathogen, P. herpotrichoides , was isolated from 724 plants in the same sample. P. anguioides was not found in a sample of eyespot‐infected straws taken from the same crop in July 1986. In infection tests, the P. anguioides isolates produced no obvious lesions on the leaf sheaths of wheat seedlings grown in pots, but were sometimes reisolated from symptomless leaf sheaths. Although P. anguioides occurred infrequently, care is needed to distinguish it from P. herpotrichoides when monitoring the eyespot pathogen.