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    First report of Phytopythium vexans causing the “Avocado sadness” in Michoacan, Mexico

    Hernández Pérez A1, E Cerna Chávez2, JC Delgado Ortiz3, M Beltrán Beache4, LM Tapia Vargas5, YM Ochoa Fuentes2

    Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.88, No.1, pp. 11-13, 2019, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2019.04608

    Abstract Mexico is the main producer, consumer and exporter of avocado in the world, being Michoacan the main producer state contributing more than 80% of the national production. There are phytopathogens that decimate the production causing the death of the tree. Root samples were collected in avocado trees that showed the characteristic symptomatology of the disease known as avocado sadness, the sampling was carried out in four of the main avocado producing towns, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. The isolation consisted in sowing root tissue in Petri dishes with V8®-PARPH culture medium, subsequently they were identified morphologically and for species… More >

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