Identification of Neofusicoccum parvum causing canker and twig blight on Ficus carica in Italy

• Published in: Phytopathologia mediterranea Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 213 - 218
• Main Authors: Aiello, Dalia, Gusella, Giorgio, Fiorenza, Alberto, Guarnaccia, Vladimiro, Polizzi, Giancarlo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Florence Firenze University Press 01.04.2020; Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze
• Subjects: Analysis; Blight; Botryosphaeriaceae; Canker; Colonies & territories; Cuttings; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Dieback; Discoloration; DNA; Elongation; Ficus carica; Fig cuttings; Fungi; molecular analysis; Morphology; Mycelia; Neofusicoccum parvum; Pathogenicity; Pathogens; Phylogenetics; Plants (Organisms); Plugs; Translation elongation; Trees; Tubulin; United States > US; Italy

During June 2018, several symptomatic fig (Ficus carica) cuttings, showing twig blight, subcortical discolouration and apical dieback were collected from a nursery in Catania province, Sicily (Italy). Isolations from diseased tissue consistently showed the presence of the same fungal colony. Morphol...