Author/Authors :
Lahuf, Adnan A. Department of Plant protection - College of Agriculture - University of Kerbala - Kerbala, Iraq , Jaafar, Ola H. Department of Plant protection - College of Agriculture - University of Kerbala - Kerbala, Iraq , Al-mosoy, Muhassen Department of Plant protection - College of Agriculture - University of Kerbala - Kerbala, Iraq , Hameed, Zainab L. Department of Field crops - College of Agriculture - University of Kerbala - Kerbala, Iraq , Li, Junman Institute of Virology and Biotechnology - Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences - Hangzhou - Zhejiang, China
Abstract :
During growing seasons of 2015 and 2016, severe rot symptoms were noticed epidemiologically on root and crown of Triticum aestivumand 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 equisetibased 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. equisetion T. aestivumand A. cordifoliaplants in Iraq.
Keywords :
Iraq , Morphological and molecular identification , Fusarium equiseti , Crown rot disease
