Università degli studi di Sassari, Facoltà di Agraria - Gallizzi
Abstract
Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid. is reported on safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) for the first time
in Italy.
Symptoms of the disease and characters of the fungus are described.
Artificial inoculation tests showed that our isolate can infect, even without any injury, young safflower
plants