(1) Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan;(2) Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan
Abstract:
Pythium aquatile and P. macrosporum were isolated from the soil of a cultivated field in Gunma Prefecture and a forest in Nagano Prefecture for the first time in Japan. Their morphological characteristics are described, and their pathogenicity and taxonomy are discussed.