• Research in Plant Disease
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.42-46
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• 2003

Conidiomata of the Rosellinia necatrix were induced in axenic culture under near ultraviolet light radiation. Pieces of sterilized Japanese pear twigs were placed on the 7 days-old oatmeal agar culture in plates. The plates were further incubated far 5 days and then illuminated by under near ultraviolet light radiation. Syn-nemata were developed on twigs in 19 out of 20 isolates tested within 5 weeks, and conidia were observed in 12 out of the 19 isolates. The synnemata and conidia produced were morphologically identical to those of Dematophora necatrix.