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An unusual Rhizoctonia-like fungus associated with red clover and cotula in New Zealand

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A slow-growing, sterile fungus, resembling Rhizoctonia, was associated with diseased red clover and Leptinella dioica (cotula) in New Zealand. It differed from other Rhizoctonia spp. examined by possessing some ascomycetous characteristics; namely, the absence of dolipore septa and insensitivity to the basidiomycete-specific fungicide, benodanil. However, the presence of multilayered septal walls and the absence of Woronin bodies are not typical of ascomycetes and thus the affinities of this fungus are unclear.

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  1. DSIR Plant Protection, Private Bag, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    M. J. Christensen & R. A. Skipp

  2. DSIR Plant Protection, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand

    I. C. Hallett

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Christensen, M.J., Skipp, R.A. & Hallett, I.C. An unusual Rhizoctonia-like fungus associated with red clover and cotula in New Zealand. Australasian Plant Pathology 21, 35–36 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1071/APP9920035

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