Shaojian Li, Jin Yang, Suxia Gao, Xuemeng Li, Yi Wen, Yuxia Liu, YanHong Qin, Xujin Wu, Chuantao Lu, Fei Wang
The cultivated variety of Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya Turcz. cv. Tiegun) is an economically important plant, capable of producing tubers that are used as food and traditional Chinese medicine. The basal stem rot was found on approximately 65% of yam (tuber expansion stage) in a total of 10 ha field in Wuzhi, Wen, and Hua counties, Henan, China (Sep 2021). Dark brown fusiform lesions initially occurred at the stems basal, irregularly extending to join together and leading to loop-stem necrotic indentation...
April 23, 2024: Plant Disease