First report of leaf blight of water chestnut ( Trapa natans L.) caused by Sclerotium hydrophilum in central China

• Published in: Plant disease
• Main Authors: Yang, Shaoli, Fu, Shiying, Zhou, Lilin, Wang, Pan, Li, Shuangmei, Zhang, Jing, Kuang, Jing, Cai, Xiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 02.01.2025
• Subjects: Fungi; Pathogen detection; Causal Agent; Vegetables; Crop Type; Subject Areas

L., or water chestnut, is a currently globally distributed aquatic plant. The Yangtze River basin in China, a site origin of water chestnut (Fan et al., 2022), has extensive cultivation as a vegetable. In June 2021, a survey at the National Aquatic Vegetable Resource Garden in Wuhan, Hubei, China, r...