a large collection of botryosphaeriaceae isolates obtained from fruit and forest trees with fruit rot, canker and dieback disease symptoms in northern provinces of the country were examined in this study. based on morphology and sequence data (its and ef1-α), two species, diplodia mutila and spencermartinsia viticola are illustrated and described as new records for iran mycobiota. furthermore, ...

Decaying oranges or other citrus fruits are almost invariably infected by one of two moulds, viz.,P. digitatum Saccardo ( = P. olivaceum W ehmer), which causes the olive-coloured rot, and P. italicum Wehmer, which is responsible for the blue-green rot. I t has been found in the course of work tha t each of these species has very definite biochemical characteristics which are described in this p...