Claim · model-written summary
All surveyed Astragalus schanginianus plants had root rot symptoms.
- Taxon
- Astragalus schanginianusAstragalus schanginianust0
- Organ / stage
- inner root tissuese0
- Interactor
- Fusarium acuminatum
Fusarium acuminatumt0pathogen - Outcome
- Disease symptomse0
- Value
- 100% incidencee0
Verbatim
e0“Disease symptoms were observed on all surveyed plants (100% incidence, n = 15), which exhibited browning of the inner root tissues.”
t0“Fusarium acuminatum Causing Astragalus schanginianus Root Rot”
Title
First Report of Fusarium acuminatum Causing Astragalus schanginianus Root Rot in Xinjiang, China
Tong-Tong Wang; Yan-Zhong Li Plant Disease 2026. doi:10.1094/pdis-11-25-2245-pdn
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Fungal isolates from diseased Astragalus roots matched F. acuminatum at all three loci.
- Observation Phylogenetic analysis grouped the isolates within F. acuminatum with full bootstrap support.
- Intervention effect Twenty percent of inoculated seedlings died by day 10.
- Intervention effect All inoculated seedlings developed brown root lesions by day 30, while controls stayed asymptomatic.
- Observation The pathogen was reisolated from infected roots, satisfying Koch’s postulates.
- Observation This is reported as the first occurrence of F. acuminatum root rot in Astragalus schanginianus.