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Diseases of Holiday Cacti: Schlumbergera and Hatiora

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Handbook of Florists' Crops Diseases

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The most important diseases of Schlumbergera truncata, the Thanksgiving cactus, are Fusarium basal stem rot, Phytophthora root and stem rot, Bipolaris blight, and bacterial soft rot. Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV) and tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) are a problem because infected plants cannot be sold. Hatiora gaertneri (Regel) Barthlott, the Easter cactus is relatively free of important diseases except for Fusarium stem rot which is very destructive to Hatiora.

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  1. Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA

    Robert L. Wick

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    Wade H. Elmer

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Wick, R.L. (2017). Diseases of Holiday Cacti: Schlumbergera and Hatiora . In: McGovern, R., Elmer, W. (eds) Handbook of Florists' Crops Diseases. Handbook of Plant Disease Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32374-9_48-1

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