Test panel: Pulse research

This test panel was developed for testing plant root samples. Disease risk and population density categories for soil samples are not applicable for root samples.

Common nameTarget species
Aphanomyces root rot Aphanomyces euteiches
Ascochyta blight of chickpea Ascochyta rabiei
Black leg Leptosphaeria maculans
Black root rot Thielaviopsis basicola
Black spot of peas / sub clover foot rot Didymella pinodes and Phoma pinodella
Charcoal rot Macrophomina phaseolina
Clubroot Plasmodiophora brassicae
Eradu patch Thin Binucleate Rhizoctonia
Phytophthora root rot Phytophthora megasperma
Phytophthora drechsleri

Phytophthora drechsleri 'lupin'
Phytophthora root rot of chickpea Phytophthora medicaginis
Pythium root rot Pythium Clade F
Pythium Clade I
Rhizoctonia root rot Rhizoctonia solani AG2.1
Rhizoctonia solani AG2.2
Rhizoctonia solani AG4
Rhizoctonia solani AG8
Root lesion nematodes Pratylenchus neglectus
Pratylenchus penetrans
Pratylenchus quasitereoides
Pratylenchus thornei
Sclerotinia stem rot Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and S. minor
(test cannot distinguish between the 2 species)
Stem nematode Ditylenchus dipsaci
Sub clover root rot Aphanomyces trifolii
Subclover phytophthora root rot Phytophthora clandestina
Page last reviewed: 09 Dec 2022

 


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