During the winter season of 2011, a sever Sclerotinia foliage blight disease symptoms were observed on sweet and hot pepper plants grown in the Protected Cultivation Station, Ministry of Agriculture located at Tookh province, Qalubiya governorate. Disease symptoms appeared as brown lesions formed at the apical part of branches in infected plants. Under humid conditions, formed lesions may expand and girdle the twigs, therefore, bud wilt and twig death follow. A cottony white mycelium develops around diseased areas with black irregularly shaped sclerotia, also watery soft rot of formed fruits take place (Fig. 1). The causal fungus was isolated and identified as Sclerotinia minor Jagger. According to the available literatures, this is thought to be the first record of Sclerotinia foliage blight disease of pepper in Egypt.
El-Mougy, N., Aly, M., Imbabi, E., & Abdel-Kader, M. (2011). First Record of Sclerotinia Foliage Blight Disease on Pepper under Protected Cultivation System in Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Phytopathology, 39(2), 209-210. doi: 10.21608/ejp.2011.230221
MLA
Nehal S. El-Mougy; Mohamed D.H. Aly; Elsaid I. Imbabi; Mokhtar M Abdel-Kader. "First Record of Sclerotinia Foliage Blight Disease on Pepper under Protected Cultivation System in Egypt". Egyptian Journal of Phytopathology, 39, 2, 2011, 209-210. doi: 10.21608/ejp.2011.230221
HARVARD
El-Mougy, N., Aly, M., Imbabi, E., Abdel-Kader, M. (2011). 'First Record of Sclerotinia Foliage Blight Disease on Pepper under Protected Cultivation System in Egypt', Egyptian Journal of Phytopathology, 39(2), pp. 209-210. doi: 10.21608/ejp.2011.230221
VANCOUVER
El-Mougy, N., Aly, M., Imbabi, E., Abdel-Kader, M. First Record of Sclerotinia Foliage Blight Disease on Pepper under Protected Cultivation System in Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Phytopathology, 2011; 39(2): 209-210. doi: 10.21608/ejp.2011.230221
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