Cotton (Texas) Root Rot
The most important disease of woody dicotyledonous plants in Arizona is Phymatotrichopsis root rot (Cotton or Texas root rot) caused by a unique and widely distributed soil-borne fungus, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora. The fungus is indigenous to the alkaline, low-organic matter soils of the southwestern United States and central and northern Mexico.
Revised 02/2015. Originally published 2000.
az1150-2015
Keywords:
- root rot
- phymatotrichopsis
- disease
- fungus
Publication Date:
March 2015
az1150-2015
Pages:
6 pp.