First report of Fusarium equiseti causing crown and root rot of cucumber in India

Shukla, A and Sharma, D and Sharma, M and Tarafdar, A and Gupta, M (2022) First report of Fusarium equiseti causing crown and root rot of cucumber in India. Journal of Plant Pathology, 104. p. 875. ISSN 2239-7264

PDF - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (519kB)

Abstract

In 2018–2020, during surveys of approximately 160 ha in 15 cucumber growing locations across the Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, the crop was found to be infected by a root and crown rot fungus causing symptoms such as the yellowing and wilting of leaves in 5–15% of plants. Two–three days after the isolations were made from root, crown and stem portions (Aldakil et al. 2019), in 60% of 40 samples colonies grew out that were initially white, aerial and floccose and later on turned yellowish to buff brown in colour....

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Global Research Program - Accelerated Crop Improvement
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Fusarium equiseti, Crown and root rot, Cucumber
Subjects:	Others > Plant Pathology Others > India
Depositing User:	Mr Nagaraju T
Date Deposited:	09 Feb 2024 04:40
Last Modified:	09 Feb 2024 04:40
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12448
Official URL:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42161-0...
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	UNSPECIFIED
Acknowledgement:	UNSPECIFIED
Links:	Google Scholar

View Statistics

Actions (login required)

View Item