Claim · model-written summary
Pycnidia formed around the inoculated area and surrounding lesions on inoculated blueberry shoots.
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e0“Signs of the disease were pycnidia formation around the inoculated area and surrounding lesions”
e1“blueberry plants (n = 32)”
Title
First Report of Botryosphaeria dothidea Causing Stem Blight to Highbush Blueberry in Michigan
Adam Adaskaveg; Lexi Heger; Jack E. Bachand; et al. Plant Disease 2026. doi:10.1094/pdis-11-25-2235-pdn
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- Observation Sequences of the isolate from the diseased blueberry showed 100% identity with Botryosphaeria dothidea reference sequences for EF1, tub2 and ITS.
- Observation Inoculated blueberry shoots showed wilting, leaf death, darkening of tissue near inoculation and stem blight.
- Observation Symptoms began as soon as 7 days post inoculation, most starting at 14 days post inoculation.
- Intervention effect Of 32 shoots inoculated with Botryosphaeria dothidea, 31 showed symptoms, versus untreated control shoots.
- Observation The fungus was recovered from all 31 symptomatic inoculated blueberry plants.
- Observation All 32 untreated control shoots were asymptomatic, although 3 were contaminated with the pathogen.
- Observation This is the first report of botryosphaeria stem blight caused by Botryosphaeria dothidea in Michigan blueberries.