INFORMATION NOTE - MICRODOCHIUM LEAF BLOTCH OF OATS - A NEW FOLIAR DISEASE CAUSED BY MICRODOCHIUM-NIVALE VAR NIVALE IN IRELAND

Authors
DIAMOND H COOKE BM DUNNE B
Citation
H. Diamond et al., INFORMATION NOTE - MICRODOCHIUM LEAF BLOTCH OF OATS - A NEW FOLIAR DISEASE CAUSED BY MICRODOCHIUM-NIVALE VAR NIVALE IN IRELAND, Plant varieties & seeds, 8(3), 1995, pp. 171-174
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture
Journal title
Plant varieties & seeds → ACNP
ISSN journal
09523863
Volume
8
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
171 - 174
Database
ISI
SICI code
0952-3863(1995)8:3<171:IN-MLB>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A leaf axil and sheath blotch of oats (Avena sativa L.) caused by Micr odochium nivale var. nivale is described for the first time. Symptoms observed during the summer of 1994 an plants in a commercial Field app eared as triangular-shaped necrotic lesions with a downturning of the leaf blade. The identity of the causal agent was determined by morphol ogical, molecular and pathogenicity tests.