Strawberry pear (pitahaya, pitaya) [Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britt. and Rose] postharvest fruit rot was found at an agricultural products store in Itoman city, Okinawa Prefecture in 2006. The symptoms included depressed, water-soaked lesions with olive to black powdery spots coalescing into a soft rot. The causal fungus was identified as Bipolaris cactivora (Petrak) Alcorn. This is the first report of strawberry pear fruit rot caused by B. cactivora. © 2007 The Phytopathological Society of Japan and Springer.
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Taba, S., Miyahira, N., Nasu, K., Takushi, T., & Moromizato, Z. I. (2007). Fruit rot of Strawberry pear (pitaya) caused by Bipolaris cactivora. Journal of General Plant Pathology, 73(5), 374–376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-007-0032-x
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