| Near the end of the 1994/95 season, in different localities of the IXth Region, Chile, a high incidence of lodged wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) fields were observed, with up to 70% of some fields having white spikes, rotten and broken stems at the base. The microscopic observation of affected tissue of wheat cvs. SNA 400 and Francia, collected near Traiguén (IX Region), as well as the isolates obtained in agar-water + streptomycin sulfate permitted the observation of slow-growing, green-grayish colonies with smooth borders and the presence of needle-like, straight or curved, hyaline conidia, with 4 to 6-septated spores, occasionally 7 septated spores, and with a length of 40.9-81.9 µ m and diameter of 1.6-2.3 µ m. Pathogenicity tests carried out with the... |
