Texas root rot

Photo by Chris Anderson, Department of Primary Industries, NSW

Wide host range, including vegetable, fruit and broadacre crops
Symptoms include wilting, dead leaves on plant, dead roots covered with white-tan fungus
Generally results in circular patches of dead/dying plants in the field
Spread via infected root contact, in soil and with infected root material

High priority pest of: Cherries, Cotton

Scientific name: Phymatotrichum omnivorum
EPPRD Category: 2
Life Form: Fungus