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Dumontinia root rot of liver leaf caused by Dumontinia tuberosa

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Foliar wilt as well as crown and root rot with sclerotia formation has affected potted liver leaf (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica f. magna) in Ojiya, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, since 2006. Apothecia developed from the sclerotia on soil surface of pots with the diseased plants in March. A fungus forming the apothecia was identified as Dumontinia tuberosa (Sclerotiniaceae) based on its morphology and demonstrated to cause the disease. We coined the name “Dumontinia root rot (Dumontinia-negusare-byo in Japanese) of liver leaf” for the new disease.

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Acknowledgments

We express our thanks to Mr. Shichiro Nakano for kindly supplying pathogen and the host plant collected in Niigata Prefecture.

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  1. National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8602, Japan

    Shihomi Uzuhashi, Keisuke Tomioka & Toyozo Sato

  2. Life Science Research Institute, Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd, 3360 Kamo, Kikugawa, Shizuoka, 439-0031, Japan

    Nobuaki Ohtaka

  3. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, B011A 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA

    Yuuri Hirooka

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Correspondence to Keisuke Tomioka.

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The fungal isolates examined were deposited in Genebank, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan as MAFF241373 and MAFF241470-241473. The nucleotide sequence data reported are available in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases as accessions AB516665–516669.

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Uzuhashi, S., Ohtaka, N., Hirooka, Y. et al. Dumontinia root rot of liver leaf caused by Dumontinia tuberosa . J Gen Plant Pathol 76, 183–187 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-010-0235-4

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