Shot hole disease of stone fruit trees, caused by Wilsonomyces carpophilus (Lév.) Adaskaveg, Ogawa & Butler(= Stigmina carpophila (Lév.) M.B. Ellis and Coryneum beijerinckii Oud.) is a serious disease of Prunus species in West Azerbaijan province. The pathogen was obtained from infected leaves, fruits and twigs of Prunus orchards during spring and summer of 2007. Samples were cultured on PDA, M...

Two new species, Septobasidium ardisiae on Ardisia sp. associated with Pseudaulacaspis sp. and Septobasidium pruni on Prunus salicina associated with Pseudaulacaspis sp., are described. They were collected from Yunnan Province, China.

Thirty isolates of Apiosporina morbosa, which were isolated from wild chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), an ornamental cultivar of chokecherry with purple foliage (P. virginiana ‘Shubert Select’), and domestic plum (Prunus domestica), were compared for morphological and molecular characteristics, using culture techniques and data from internal transcribed spacers (ITS) I and II, restriction fragm...

The usefulness of random amplified microsatellite polymorphism markers to study the genetic diversity and relationships among cultivars belonging to Prunus salicina and P. domestica and their wild relatives (P. insititia and P. spinosa) was investigated. A total of 226 of 234 bands were polymorphic (96.58%). The 226 random amplified microsatellite polymorphism markers were screened using 15 ran...