| isolation and identification of sclerotinia stem rot causal pathogen in arabidopsis thaliana. | a new stem rot disease is found to occur naturally on arabidopsis plants in greenhouses of fuzhou, china. in order to identify its pathogen, we conducted a series of fungal isolation and purification, plant reinoculation, and ascus and ascospore induction from the sclerotia. the isolate caused typical water-soaked lesions after reinoculation and produced sclerotia both on arabidopsis plants and culture medium plates, and the sclerotia could be induced to produce discal apothecia and 8 binucleate ... | 2008 | 18837110 |