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Hormiactis cap spot of cultivated mushrooms is reported for the first time in Australia. Hormiactis alba was isolated from mushroom caps grown in a commercial mushroom farm in Central Victoria. A simple wound inoculation experiment showed that it grows rapidly on the caps of Agaricus bisporus.
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Cunnington, J.H., Ratnayake, K., Salib, S. et al. First record of Hormiactis cap spot of mushrooms in Australia. Australasian Plant Disease Notes 3, 19–20 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1071/DN08008
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