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A black filamentous fungus was isolated from all nine symptomatic palms but not other sampled palms.
Phoenix canariensisVerbatim
e0“A black filamentous fungus was isolated from all nine palms with rot disease symptoms but not from the other sampled palms.”
t0“Phoenix canariensis”
Title
First report of Neodeightonia phoenicum causing rot disease of Phoenix canariensis in Mexico
A. Quezada‐Salinas; L. L. Saavedra‐Romero; D. Alvarado‐Rosales; et al. New Disease Reports 2025. doi:10.1002/ndr2.70033
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Rot symptoms occurred in nine of 56 surveyed palms in Mexico City.
- Observation The rot produced brown petiole and rachis discoloration, elongated lesions, and wilting and drying of lower fronds.
- Observation Disease progression caused terminal bud collapse and palm death.
- Observation Morphological and molecular evidence identified the fungus as N. phoenicum.
- Intervention effect Inoculated fronds developed field-like symptoms after 35 days whereas controls stayed healthy.
- Intervention effect All inoculated palms died by 50 days and developed abundant pycnidia and conidia.
- Observation The fungus was re-isolated and confirmed as N. phoenicum after the pathogenicity test.
- Observation The authors report N. phoenicum rot of Phoenix canariensis in Mexico for the first time.