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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Albugo candida causing white rust on Erysimum crassicaule in Iran

M. R. Mirzaee A , M. Abbasi B and M. Mohammadi C D
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A 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.


Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Gh. Haderbadi for his advice and A. Ghavipanjah for her technical assistance.


References


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