Table 2.
Means of lesion lengths caused by different Phaeoacremonium species on detached green plum and apricot shoots, and mean re-isolation frequencies of these species from observed lesions.
| Fungal species | Mean of lesion length (mm)1 |
Mean of re-isolation frequency (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plum | Apricot | Plum | Apricot | |
| Togninia parasitica | 55.0 a | 63.2 a | 75 | 8 |
| Phaeoacremonium iranianum | 36.1 bc | 56.5 ab | 80 | 38 |
| Pm. subulatum | 33.5 bc | 57.7 ab | 83 | 8 |
| Pm. griseorubrum | 32.8 bc | 57.2 ab | 70 | 55 |
| T. africana | 33.1 bc | 53.9 ab | 75 | 50 |
| T. griseo-olivacea | 39.4 b | 38.8 bcd | 92 | 50 |
| T. minima | 37.8 bc | 45.7 abc | 75 | 29 |
| T. viticola | 35.8 bc | 47.6 abc | 84 | 8 |
| Pm. prunicolum | 35.2 bc | 33.4 cd | 84 | 25 |
| T. fraxinopennsylvanica | 33.9 bc | 45.7 abc | 80 | 13 |
| Pm. scolyti | 33.2 bc | 50.6 abc | 80 | 17 |
| Pm. australiense | 33.0 bc | 44.2 abcd | 54 | 38 |
| Pm. pallidum | 31.5 bcd | 38.7 bcd | 25 | 0 |
| Pm. fuscum | 25.1 cd | 39.3 bcd | 100 | 8 |
| Acremonium strictum | 19.8 de | 32.4 cd | 25 | 0 |
| Agar plug | 12.6 e | 24.8 d | – | – |
| LSD (P < 0.05) | 12.0 | 19.9 | ||
1 Means followed by the same letter are not significantly different (P < 0.05).