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A corm rot disease was observed for the first time in banana. The disease was found to occur in the majority of commercial cultivars grown in different banana-growing states of India. The incidence of the disease was up to 50% and found to occur at an altitude up to 3000 m asl. The pathogen was identified as Sclerotium rolfsii based on morphological characters and rDNA internal transcribed spacer sequence data.
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Thangavelu, R., Mustaffa, M.M. First report of corm rot disease caused by Sclerotium rolfsii in banana. Australasian Plant Disease Notes 5, 30–33 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1071/DN10012
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