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Production of microsclerotia by Microdochium panattonianum

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Microsclerotia of M. panattonianum were produced on cellophane sheets placed on potato-dextrose agar, corn-meal agar, water agar and purified agar, as well as directly on malt-extract agar, nutrient-pectin-cellulose agar and pectin-cellulose agar. The microsclerotia were 35–65 μm in diameter and composed of pseudoparenchymatous tissue of textura angularis and globulosa type. Microsclerotia were not observed in sections of unabscissed and abscissed anthracnose lesions on lettuce leaves.

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Parman, Price, T.V. Production of microsclerotia by Microdochium panattonianum . Australasian Plant Pathology 20, 41–46 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1071/APP9910041

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