Abstract
During growing seasons of 2015 and 2016, severe rot symptoms were noticed
epidemiologically on root and crown of Triticum aestivum and Aptenia cordifolia
seedlings in Kerbala Province, Iraq. Thus, the aims of this research were to isolate,
identify and assess pathogenicity of the causal agent of the disease. Several fungal
isolates of Fusarium genus were consistently isolated from the diseased root and crown
of the seedlings. The pathogen was identified as Fusarium equiseti based on its cultural
and morphological characteristics, pathogenicity and sequence of the ITS-rDNA
region. This is first record of crown rot disease caused by F. equiseti on T. aestivum
and A. cordifolia plants in Iraq.
Adnan A. Lahuf, Ola H. Jaafar, Muhassen Al-mosoy, Zainab L. Hameed, Junman Li. (2018) First record of the crown rot fungus Fusarium equiseti affecting Triticum aestivum L. and Aptenia cordifolia in Iraq, Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology, Volume 6, Issue 4.
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