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PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 64, Issue 8, Pages 781-788Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1564
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diagnosis; disease management; host specificity; pathogenicity; transposon; forma specialis
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Rapid and reliable detection and identification of potential plant pathogens is required for taking appropriate and timely disease management measures. For many microbial species of which all strains generally are plant pathogens on a known host range, this has become quite straightforward. However, for some fungal species this is quite a challenge. One of these is Fusarium oxysporum Schlechtend:Fr., which, as a species, has a very broad host range, while individual strains are usually highly host-specific. Moreover, many strains of this fungus are non-pathogenic soil inhabitants. Thus, with regard to effective disease management, identification below the species level is highly desirable. So far, the genetic basis of host specificity in F. oxysporum is poorly understood. Furthermore, strains that infect a particular plant species are not necessarily more closely related to each other than to strains that infect other hosts. Despite these difficulties, recently an increasing :number of studies have reported the successful development of molecular markers to discriminate F. oxysporum strains below the species level. (c) 2008 Society of Chemical Industry.
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