Table 1. Morphological and cultural characteristics of isolates of Fusarium mangiferae from Dashehri, Chausa, Amrapali, Mallika and Bombay Green cultivars of mango grown in Bareilly, Haldwani, Lucknow, Dehradun districts of India, recorded on CLA medium.
Morphological characteristics |
Fusarium mangiferae |
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Isolate-1 | Isolate-2 | Isolate-3 | Isolate-4 | Isolate-5 | Isolate-6 | Isolate-7 | Isolate-8 | Isolate-9 | Isolate-10 | |||||||
Microconidia obovoid |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
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Microconidia oval to allantoid/or fusoid |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
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Sterile coiled hyphae |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Conidiophore originated erect |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
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Conidiogenous openings: ≤ 3 |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
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Conidiogenous openings: ≥ 3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Microconidia 0-septate |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
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Microconidia occasionally 1-septate |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
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Macroconidia 3-septate |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
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Macroconidia 3–5 septate |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Chlamydospore |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Polyphialides |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
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White + purple colony color in Petri dishes (obverse) |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
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Purple colony color in Petri dishes (reverse) |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
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Host specific | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
“+” indicates the presence of the characteristic; “-” indicates the absence of the characteristic and “?” Indicates that the characteristic has not been reported