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Bipolaris sorokiniana (Sacc. in Sorok.) Shoem. (syn. Helminthosporium sativum (Pamm. King & Backe), teleomorph Cochliobolus sativus (Ito & Kurib.) is a widespread fungus which can cause disease in grasses including cereals but occasionally also other taxonomic groups (Wildermuth and MacNamara, 1987). It attacks all parts of the plants from roots to seeds, at all stages of plant growth. Depending on the site of infection, it causes diseases such as spot blotch, seedling blight, foot rot, crown rot and root rot on cereals. The fungus is transmitted by seeds, is soil borne or is dispersed as conidia by air currents. The diseases occur mainly in the warmer cereal growing regions, particularly in North America and parts of Australia and New Zealand (Sivanesan and Holliday, 1981). They were regarded relative unimportant in Europe (Sivanesan and Holliday, 1981), but have become increasingly important in barley in the cool climate of North-Western Europe (Jørgensen, 1974; Kurppa, 1984).
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Åkesson, H., Jansson, HB. (1996). Prehelminthosporol, a Phytotoxin from Bipolaris Sorokiniana . In: Jensen, D.F., Jansson, HB., Tronsmo, A. (eds) Monitoring Antagonistic Fungi Deliberately Released into the Environment. Developments in Plant Pathology, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1698-2_14
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