Article
Persistent, symptomless, systemic, and seed-borne infection of lettuce by Botrytis cinerea
2010-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Experiments are presented which show that Botrytis cinerea, the cause of grey mould disease, is often present in symptomless lettuce plants as a systemic, endophytic, infection which may arise from seed. The fungus was isolated on selective media from surface-sterilised sections of roots, stem pieces and leaf discs from symptomless plants grown in a conventional glasshouse and in a spore-free air-flow provided by...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7c6210bf-7385-578f-a486-c453c367481d
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10658-009-9524-1
