Characterization of foliar web blight of spinach, caused by pythium aphanidermatum, in the desert southwest of the United States

Agriculture & Biology

• Pythium aphanidermatum 100%
• blight 74%
• spinach 71%
• deserts 66%
• damping off 27%
• signs and symptoms (plants) 22%
• internal transcribed spacers 19%
• seeds 14%
• intergenic DNA 14%
• application rate 13%
• ribosomal DNA 13%
• lettuce 13%
• wheat 13%
• cytochrome-c oxidase 13%
• corn 13%
• overhead irrigation 10%
• mefenoxam 10%
• high density planting 9%
• rice 9%
• seedlings 8%
• foliar diseases 8%
• squashes 8%
• DNA primers 7%
• melons 7%
• Magnoliopsida 7%
• pepper 7%
• cucumbers 6%
• mycelium 6%
• tissues 6%
• planting 5%
• cotton 5%
• potatoes 5%
• agar 5%
• tomatoes 5%
• soybeans 5%
• greenhouses 5%