First report of southern blight of common barley in Puerto Rico

Autor: Joseph Esnard, Paul R. Hepperly
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: European Journal of Plant Pathology. 101:497-501
ISSN: 1573-8469
0929-1873
DOI: 10.1007/bf01874473
Popis: In 1990–91, 96% of the test plants in a barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) winter nursery in Puerto Rico was lost toSclerotium rolfsii. Small necrotic lesions (1–3 mm long) developed at the base of the stem, followed by wilting and general chlorosis as the lesions progressed and eventually girdled the base of the stem. Sclerotia then developed on the plants at the stem base. Two morphologically different strains ofS. rolfsii that were mycelial incompatible were isolated. This is the first report of a destructive blight due toS. rolfsii on field barley in the Caribbean. The apparent rate of disease increase (r) was estimated to be 12.2% per day using the logistic model, with an initial disease incidence of 0.042% (R2=0.89, p
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