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Pod Spot and Seed Blight: A New Disease of Mesquite Caused by Macrophomina phaseoVma
Author(s) -
Muchovej J. J.,
Campelo C. R.,
Dos Santos J. M.,
Cruz Filho J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of phytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1439-0434
pISSN - 0931-1785
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0434.1989.tb01126.x
Subject(s) - macrophomina phaseolina , biology , pycnidium , point of delivery , blight , fungus , ascochyta , horticulture , botany , agronomy
A new disease of pods and seeds of mequite caused by Macrophomina phaseolina is described from Northeastern Brazil. Affected pods showed a brown discolouration which often included pycnidia of the fungus. Infected seeds did not germmate.