Abstract
Disease incidence was recorded in tubers of various cultivars following inoculation with macerated mycelium of Phoma exigua var. foveata and wounding in various ways. A method which produced predominantly crush wounds gave most rots and the most consistent results. The length of time between inoculation and wounding did not significantly affect the incidence of disease but disease severity did increase with damage infliction time. Inoculated, undamaged tubers produced rots but the incidence was low and discrimination between cultivars was poor when compared with damaged tubers. In some tests the resistance to gangrene could be measured by the proportion of tubers affected, in others all tubers had lesions but the extent of infection was different, The latent period of the disease differed between cultivars. Rate of lesion development was constant over a period of 12 wk within cultivars but differed between them.
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