First report of Sclerotinia blight caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Quang Nam, Vietnam
T. M. Luong A , L. M. T. Huynh A , T. V. Le A , L. W. Burgess B D and H. T. Phan CA Quang Nam Plant Protection Sub-Department, Tam Ky, Quang Nam, Vietnam.
B Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
C National Institute of Medicinal Materials, Hanoi, Vietnam.
D Corresponding author. Email: burgess.international@gmail.com
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 5(1) 42-44 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN10016
Submitted: 16 April 2010 Accepted: 27 April 2010 Published: 10 May 2010
Abstract
Sclerotinia blight, caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is reported from Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, for the first time. The disease is common in cool wet winter and spring seasons on dwarf and climbing beans, peanuts and occasionally on chilli plants. A serious epidemic occurred in peanuts in some communes in spring 2008, following a period of cool wet weather after the crop canopy had closed and when flowering was well advanced.
Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research through CP/2002/115 – Diseases of crops in the central provinces of Vietnam: diagnosis, extension and control (2005–2008).
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