| identification and characterization of a novel etiological agent of mango malformation disease in mexico, fusarium mexicanum sp. nov. | the primary objective of this study was to characterize fusarium spp. associated with the economically devastating mango malformation disease (mmd) in mexico. in all, 142 fusarium strains were isolated from symptomatic mango inflorescences and vegetative tissues in eight geographically diverse mexican states from 2002 through 2007. initially, all the mexican isolates were screened for genetic diversity using appolymerase chain reaction and random amplified polymorphic dna markers and were groupe ... | 2010 | 20932166 |