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A Strawberry Fruit Rot Caused by Pestalotia longisetula. C. M. Howard, Assistant Professor (Ass’t. Plant Pathologist), IFAS, University of Florida, Agricultural Research Center, Dover 33527; E. E. Albregts, Assistant Professor (Ass’t. Soil Chemist), IFAS, University of Florida, Agricultural Research Center, Dover 33527. Phytopathology 63:862-863. Accepted for publication 16 January 1973. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-63-862.

During the winter of 1972, a new strawberry fruit rot caused by Pestalotia longisetula caused severe losses in some research plots and in some commercial plantings of the cultivars ‘Tioga’ and ‘Fresno’. Isolations from the fruit rot lesions usually yielded only Pestalotia longisetula. Rot lesions similar to those in the field developed on surface-sterilized fruits when they were inoculated with spore suspensions of the fungus.