Abstract
Abstract A description is provided for Rhizopus stolonifer . Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On fruits: papaya, plum, strawberry, sweet potato, cotton, groundnuts and in rhizosphere soil of various plants, soil and decaying leaves. DISEASE: Causing fruit rot of plum, Jak fruit ( Artocarpus integrifolia [Artocarpus integer] ), strawberry ('leak'), peach and a rot of sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas ) and cotton bolls. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: World-wide. TRANSMISSION: Air-borne and also by fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster , associated with decaying fruit (RAM 43, 576).
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