MOSA, A., EL-KHOLI, M. (1997). CHARACTERIZATION AND PATHOGENICITY OF ANASTOMOSIS GROUPS OF RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI ISOLATED FROM SUGARBEET IN EGYPT. Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research, 75(3), 717-729. doi: 10.21608/ejar.1997.410387
AHMED A. MOSA; MOSTAFA M A. EL-KHOLI. "CHARACTERIZATION AND PATHOGENICITY OF ANASTOMOSIS GROUPS OF RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI ISOLATED FROM SUGARBEET IN EGYPT". Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research, 75, 3, 1997, 717-729. doi: 10.21608/ejar.1997.410387
MOSA, A., EL-KHOLI, M. (1997). 'CHARACTERIZATION AND PATHOGENICITY OF ANASTOMOSIS GROUPS OF RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI ISOLATED FROM SUGARBEET IN EGYPT', Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research, 75(3), pp. 717-729. doi: 10.21608/ejar.1997.410387
MOSA, A., EL-KHOLI, M. CHARACTERIZATION AND PATHOGENICITY OF ANASTOMOSIS GROUPS OF RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI ISOLATED FROM SUGARBEET IN EGYPT. Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research, 1997; 75(3): 717-729. doi: 10.21608/ejar.1997.410387
CHARACTERIZATION AND PATHOGENICITY OF ANASTOMOSIS GROUPS OF RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI ISOLATED FROM SUGARBEET IN EGYPT
1Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
2Sugar Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt
Abstract
Fourty-three isolates of Rhizoctonia were collected from sugar-beet seedlings and older plants from different fields in Egypt during 1992-1993. Of the isolates collected, only one was binucleate and the remaining 42 isolates were multinucleate with characteristics typical of R.solani. R.solani isolates belonged to three anastomosis groups : AG-2-2 (28.6%), AG-4 (64.3%) and AG-5 (7.1%). All isolates from rotted roots were AG-2-2, while 81.8% of AG-4 isolates from seedlings. Pathogenicity tests on sugarbeet seedlings in the greenhouse showed that isolates of AG- 4 were most pathogenic in causing seedling damping-off compared with AG-2-2 and AG-5, while AG-2-2 isolates were more virulent in causing root-rot to older sugar beet plants. The binucleate isolate of Rhizoctonia was nonpathogenic and increased growth of sugarbeet seedlings. The binucleate isolate significantly reduced damping-off caused by R.solani.