First record of Hormiactis cap spot of mushrooms in Australia
J. H. Cunnington A E , K. Ratnayake B , S. Salib A , G. Irvine A , M. J. Priest C and R. G. Shivas DA Biosciences Research Division, Department of Primary Industries, Knoxfield Centre, Private Bag 15, Ferntree Gully Delivery Centre, Vic. 3156, Australia.
B 183 Grandview Grove, Rosanna, Vic. 3084, Australia.
C New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Orange Agricultural Institute, Orange, NSW 2800, Australia.
D Plant Pathology Herbarium, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068, Australia.
E Corresponding author. Email: james.cunnington@dpi.vic.gov.au
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 3(1) 19-20 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN08008
Submitted: 21 February 2008 Accepted: 6 March 2008 Published: 20 March 2008
Abstract
Hormiactis cap spot of cultivated mushrooms is reported for the first time in Australia. Hormiactis alba was isolated from mushroom caps grown in a commercial mushroom farm in Central Victoria. A simple wound inoculation experiment showed that it grows rapidly on the caps of Agaricus bisporus.
