Claim · model-written summary
The authors report Pythium irregulare as the causal agent of cucumber root rot in Almería plastic houses.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse0 - Interactor
- P. irregulareGlobisporangium irregularee0pathogen
- Outcome
- root rote0
- Setting
- Almería (Spain)e0
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Verbatim
e0“This is the first report of P. irregulare as the causal agent of root rot in plastic-houses of cucumber plants in Almería (Spain)”
Title
Short communication. The wilt of winter cucumber in south-eastern Spain caused by Pythium irregulare
Y. Serrano-Alonso; J. M. Melero-Vara Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research 2011. doi:10.5424/sjar/20110901-067-10
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Pythium irregulare was isolated from cucumber plants with stem necrosis, wilt or death in winter plastic houses.
- Intervention effect Cucumber-derived Pythium irregulare isolates caused 93.1% and 97.9% diseased or dead cucumber plants.
- Intervention effect Cucumber-derived Pythium isolates were significantly more aggressive on cucumber than tomato-derived isolates.
- Observation Non-inoculated cucumber plants remained symptom free.
- Intervention effect Cucumber-derived Pythium isolates significantly reduced cucumber marketable yield in both years.
- Association Reduced fruit number was the main source of yield loss in cucumber plots inoculated with Pythium.
- Observation Fruit weight contributed less than fruit number to yield loss in inoculated cucumber plots.