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Plantago Wilt. T. E. Russell, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology, University of Arizona, Mesa Branch Station, 1601 W. Main St., Mesa 85202; Phytopathology 65:359-360. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-65-359.

Fusarium oxysporum is reported here as a pathogen of the mucilage plant, Plantago ovata. Symptoms may be a pre-emergence damping-off, or a rapid wilting of 120- to 150-day-old plants. Discoloration of the tap root (commencing at the tip) is also evident, and is accompanied by the presence of large quantities of hyphae in xylem elements, vascular discoloration, and a cortical root rot.