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First Report of Choanephora cucurbitarum on Crotalaria spectabilis: A Highly Aggressive Pathogen Causing a Flower and Stem Blight in Brazil
2018-07-01
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Crotalaria spectabilis Roth is a herbaceous plant, native to tropical Asia, that was introduced in Brazil as a fodder plant, for green manure, nitrogen fixation, and nematode control. In May 2014, 90% of C. spectabilis plants grown on more than 1,000 ha were severely infected with flower and stem blight disease in Tapaborã, Mato Grosso, Brazil. The symptoms started on flowers, causing blight and water-soaked lesio...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7f9cf675-a18d-5c59-9dc8-4b1eb1072121
- DOI
- 10.1094/pdis-10-17-1610-pdn
