TY - JOUR N2 - Kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) is one of the most significant commercial crops in Iran. In 2015 a destructive disease of kiwifruits was observed in orchards, storage facilities and retail markets, resulting in great economic loss to producers. In this study phenotypic and molecular techniques were applied to characterize the causal agent of kiwifruit rot observed in Mazandaran province, northern Iran. From the similarity among the results of pathogenicity tests, equivalency with standard taxonomic criteria for disease and PCR-based analysis of the ITS region, all the isolates were identified as Botryosphaeria dothidea. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/109965/PDF/Nazerian.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/109965 PY - 2019 IS - No 1 EP - 137 DO - 10.24425/jppr.2019.126035 KW - Actinidia deliciosa KW - Botryosphaeria dothidea KW - ITS KW - post-harvest KW - ripe rot A1 - Nazerian, Eisa A1 - Mirabolfathy, Mansoureh A1 - Peighami Ashnaei, Samira A1 - Beiki, Farid PB - Committee of Plant Protection PAS PB - Institute of Plant Protection – National Research Institute VL - vol. 59 DA - 2019.03.14 T1 - Characterization of Botryosphaeria dothidea as new pathogen of kiwifruit in Iran SP - 134 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109965 T2 - Journal of Plant Protection Research ER -