Claim · model-written summary
Wilt and white rot occurred on cow cockle plants in Antalya.
- Taxon
- V. hispanica
Gypsophila vaccariae0 - Outcome
- symptoms of wilt and white rote0
- Setting
- Antalya, Türkiyee0
Verbatim
e0“symptoms of wilt and white rot were observed on V. hispanica plants at Akdeniz University Research Greenhouses in Antalya, Türkiye”
Title
Ahmet Izmirli; Esin Ari; Adem Kaba; et al. Plant Disease 2025. doi:10.1094/pdis-09-25-1837-pdn
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Approximately 30% of cow cockle plants had severe effects or desiccation.
- Observation Disease progression included fungal stem growth, drying branches, sclerotia, and sometimes plant death.
- Observation The isolated fungus was identified morphologically as Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.
- Intervention effect Only inoculated cow cockle plants developed disease symptoms and sclerotia within 15 days.
- Observation The fungus was reisolated from diseased stems.
- Method / resource Four sequenced loci were deposited in GenBank.
- Observation The sequenced fungal loci showed 95–100% identity to corresponding sequences.
- Observation The authors report the first worldwide stem rot caused by S. sclerotiorum on V. hispanica.
