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Origin, nuclear condition and hyphal anastomosis groups of the isolates of Rhizoctonia studied

Origin, nuclear condition and hyphal anastomosis groups of the isolates of Rhizoctonia studied

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... isolates were maintained on PDA medium, stored at 14 • C and transferred at 6-month intervals. Some isolates from other hosts were also included for comparisons (Table 1). ...
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... the six isolates of Rhizoctonia from Eucalyptus cut- tings with necrosis on leaves, four were multinucleate and two binucleate (Table 1). Among twelve isolates from plants or shoots with symptoms of leaf scorch col- lected in the field, eleven were multinucleate and one binucleate. ...
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... multinucleate isolates from plants with leaf scorch, and all multinucleate isolates from necrotic lesions on cuttings, anastomosed with isolates of group AG-1 of R. solani (Table 1). Multinucleate isolates RH-6, RH-8, and RH-11 from Eucalyptus, RH-7 from cotton and RH-12 from bean anastomosed with isolates from group AG-4. ...

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