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Fruit rot of Strawberry pear (pitaya) caused by Bipolaris cactivora

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Strawberry pear (pitahaya, pitaya) [Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britt. and Rose] postharvest fruit rot was found at an agricultural products store in Itoman city, Okinawa Prefecture in 2006. The symptoms included depressed, water-soaked lesions with olive to black powdery spots coalescing into a soft rot. The causal fungus was identified as Bipolaris cactivora (Petrak) Alcorn. This is the first report of strawberry pear fruit rot caused by B. cactivora.

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  1. Nao Miyahira

    Present address: Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan

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  1. Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara-cho, Okinawa, 903-0213, Japan

    Satoshi Taba, Nao Miyahira & Zen-ichi Moromizato

  2. Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Research Center, 820 Makabe, Itoman, Okinawa, 901-0336, Japan

    Kanami Nasu & Tetsuya Takushi

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Taba, S., Miyahira, N., Nasu, K. et al. Fruit rot of Strawberry pear (pitaya) caused by Bipolaris cactivora . J Gen Plant Pathol 73, 374–376 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-007-0032-x

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