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Ornamental Diseases Incited by Rhizoctonia Spp.

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Rhizoctonia Species: Taxonomy, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Pathology and Disease Control

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Both multinucleate, Rhizoctonia solani, and to a much lesser extent binucleate Rhizoctonia spp. fungi cause diseases in ornamental crops grown in greenhouses, nurseries, and the landscape. This chapter includes information on some of the most important ornamental diseases, crops attacked, symptoms, pathogens, epidemiology, and a discussion of control strategies somewhat unique to ornamentals. Although Rhizoctonia spp. are primarily pathogens of ornamentals, some may be useful biological control agents for ornamental diseases (see below) and others are endophytes of orchids important for plant development (Sneh et al., 1991).

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7629, USA

    D. Michael Benson & D. Kelly Cartwright

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  1. Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Baruch Sneh

  2. McDonald Campus, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

    Suha Jabaji-Hare

  3. CSIRO, Division of Soils, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Stephen Neate

  4. Research Institute for Plant Protection (IPO-DLO), Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Gerda Dijst

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Benson, D.M., Cartwright, D.K. (1996). Ornamental Diseases Incited by Rhizoctonia Spp.. In: Sneh, B., Jabaji-Hare, S., Neate, S., Dijst, G. (eds) Rhizoctonia Species: Taxonomy, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Pathology and Disease Control. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2901-7_27

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