The survival on chrysanthemum roots of epiphytic mycelium of Mycosphaerella ligulicola
- 1 October 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Applied Biology
- Vol. 58 (2) , 291-298
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7348.1966.tb04388.x
Abstract
SUMMARY: Mycosphaerella ligulicola has been shown to survive as epiphytic mycelium on the root surface of chrysanthemum cuttings: such survival could continue throughout the life of the glasshouse crop. Symptomless surface colonization of roots of cuttings could be induced in non‐sterile soil from an inoculum of (a) mycelium and sclerotia or (b) conidia (Ascochyta state); the colonization could spread upwards over the root surface.After 12 weeks survival as an epiphyte on chrysanthemum roots the fungus was still pathogenic to unrooted cuttings.Although the root surfaces of twelve other plants could be colonized by M. ligulicola the fungus survived on these roots for not more than 8 weeks.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- A method of studying active mycelia on living roots and other surfaces in the soilTransactions of the British Mycological Society, 1955