Common Names of Plant Diseases


Diseases of Flax
(Linum usitatissimum L. and other Linum spp.)



FUNGAL DISEASES

Anthracnose
Colletotrichum lini (Westerdijk) Tochinai
Basal stem blight
Phoma spp.
P. exigua Desmaz. var. linicola (Naumov & Vass.) Maas
Brown stem blight
Alternaria linicola Groves & Skolko
Browning (and) stem break
Aureobasidium lini (Lafferty) Hermanides-Nijhof
(teleomorph: Guignardia fulvida F.R. Sanderson)
Damping-off, root rot, and seedling blight
Alternaria spp.
Colletotrichum lini (Westerdijk) Tochinai
Fusarium spp.
Pythium spp.
Rhizoctonia solani Kühn
(teleomorph: Thanatephorus cucumeris (A.B. Frank) Donk)
Thielaviopsis basicola (Berk. & Broome) Ferraris
(synanamorph: Chalara elegans Nag Raj & Kendrick)
Dieback
Selenophoma linicola Vanterpool
Pasmo
Septoria linicola (Speg.) Garassini
(teleomorph: Mycosphaerella linicola Naumov)
Rust
Melampsora lini (Ehrenb.) Desmaz.
Stem mold & rot
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) deBary
Wilt
Fusarium oxysporum Schlechtend.:Fr. f. sp. lini (Bolley) W.C. Snyder & H.N. Hans.

MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES OR DISORDERS

Boll blight
Extreme high temperatures
Chlorosis
Alkaline and very wet soils; mineral deficiencies; herbicide damage
Stem girdle
Extreme high or low temperatures cause cankers at soil level
Stem twisting and bending
Herbicide damage and soil and temperature conditions

VIRUS DISEASES

(Also mycoplasmalike organism [MLO])
Aster yellows
MLO
Crinkle
Oat blue dwarf virus
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