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PLANT DISEASE
Volume 94, Issue 7, Pages 867-872Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-94-7-0867
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- American Vineyard Foundation
- Viticulture Consortium West
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Diatrypaceous fungi have been isolated from cankered wood of grapevines (Vitis vinifera) in California. However, the pathogenicity of these fungi and their potential to cause diseases in grapevine was unknown. A series of pathogenicity tests were conducted to determine if these fungi were grapevine pathogens. In all experiments, species of the family Diatrypaceae were re-isolated from the margins of developing lesions, although frequency of re-isolation and average length of vascular discolorations varied among isolates. Cryptovalsa ampelina, Diatrype stigma, and Eutypa leptoplaca were capable of colonizing dormant canes and causing vascular necrosis. Ctyptosphaeria pullmanensis, C. ampelina, D. stigma, Diatrype whitmanensis, and E. leptoplaca infected and caused lesions in green shoots of the new vegetative growth. Diatrype oregonensis and Diatrypella verrucaeformis isolates did not produce lesions that were significantly different from those produced in the control shoots and canes. This suggests that D. oregonensis and D. verrucaeformis fungi may be saprophytic rather than pathogenic to grapevine.
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