Albugo candida causing white rust on Erysimum crassicaule in Iran
M. R. Mirzaee A , M. Abbasi B and M. Mohammadi C DA Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Southern Khorasan, PO Box 413, Birjand, Iran.
B Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, PO Box 19395-1454 Tehran, Iran.
C Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, 1463 Boyce Hall, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA 92507, USA.
D Corresponding author. Email: mojtabam@ucr.edu
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 4(1) 124-125 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN09050
Submitted: 16 September 2009 Accepted: 17 November 2009 Published: 30 November 2009
Abstract
White rust of Erysimum crassicaule caused by Albugo candida is newly reported from Iran. This is the first record of this fungal disease on E. crassicaule both in Iran and worldwide.
Keywords: Albuginaceae, desert plant, Oomycete, white blister.