Aug 2026
First report of cladode spot caused by Alternaria alternata on Opuntia robusta in South Africa
In the multilocus phylogenetic tree constructed using maximum likelihood (ML) analysis of concatenated ITS-TEF1-RPB2-ALT a1 sequences, isolate HF1 clustered with reference A. alternata strains with 95% bootstrap support, fulfilling Koch’s postulates.
Habofanoe Fosa, W. Swart, N. Muzhinji et al.
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