Database of Plant Diseases in Japan

Details of Chestnuts Black root rot
Host plant
  • Chestnuts, Chinese chestnut, Japanese chestnut
Disease nameBlack root rot
Disease name (Japanese)
  • 黒根立枯病 [kurone-tachigare-byo]
Pathogen/Cause (1)
  • Didymosporium radicicola Tak. Kobayashi & C. Oishi
Pathogen/Cause (2)
  • Diaporthopsis sp.
Pathogen/Cause (synonym) (2)
  • Macrophoma castaneicola Tak. Kobayashi & C. Oishi
References (2)
  • 大石親男・八木敏江:日植病報 40(3):176, 1974
  • 大石親男ら:日植病報 45(4):546, 1979
  • Kobayashi, T. & Oishi, C.:Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 20(4):429, 1979
  • 大石親男ら:日植病報 52(3):538, 1986
Related strains2 strains
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