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Introduction — The Genus Rhizoctonia

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Rhizoctonia Species: Taxonomy, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Pathology and Disease Control

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The genus Rhizoctonia was described by DeCandolle in 1815. He designated R. crocorum (Pers.) DC. as the type species, while R. solani,the most important species of Rhizoctonia, was described by Kühn in 1858. The history of R. solani is almost as long as the history of plant pathology. It was published around the time when the potato late blight broke out in Europe, which caused the noteworthy potato famine in Ireland. Since these initial reports, the pathology, taxonomy, ecology, and disease control of Rhizoctonia have been extensively studied.

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    Akira Ogoshi

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  1. Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  3. CSIRO, Division of Soils, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Stephen Neate

  4. Research Institute for Plant Protection (IPO-DLO), Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Gerda Dijst

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Ogoshi, A. (1996). Introduction — The Genus Rhizoctonia . In: Sneh, B., Jabaji-Hare, S., Neate, S., Dijst, G. (eds) Rhizoctonia Species: Taxonomy, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Pathology and Disease Control. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2901-7_1

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