 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: Cotton
Scientific name: Phymatotrichopsis omnivora (syn
Phymatotrichum omnivorum)
EPPRD Category: 2
Life Form: Fungus
Pest Documents
FS: fact sheet
CP: contingency plan
DP: diagnostic protocol
