Sclerotium rolfsii causing collar dry rot on Impatiens walleriana in Argentina

S. M. Wolcan; P. J. Grego

doi:10.1071/DN09022

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Sclerotium rolfsii causing collar dry rot on Impatiens walleriana in Argentina

S. M. Wolcan ^A ^B ^C and P. J. Grego ^A

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^A Centro de Investigaciones de Fitopatología, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, 60 y 119, 1900 – La Plata, Argentina.

^B Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, 526 (10 y 11), 1900 – La Plata, Bs. As., Argentina.

^C Corresponding author. Email: swolcan@speedy.com.ar

Australasian Plant Disease Notes 4(1) 54-55 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN09022
Submitted: 5 January 2009 Accepted: 20 April 2009 Published: 1 June 2009

Abstract

Sclerotium rolfsii is recorded for the first time causing collar dry rot on Impatiens walleriana (Balsaminaseae) in Argentina.

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