Foot rot disease of sweet potato in Japan caused by Diaporthe destruens: first report, pathogenicity and taxonomy - Journal of General Plant Pathology

Foot rot, also known as stem rot or tuber-root rot syndrome, on sweet potato occurs in sweet potato fields in Okinawa, Japan. Isolates of one fungal species that was consistently isolated from affected sweet potato produced pycnidia having alpha and gamma conidia. The same symptoms as those in the …