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Vol.3, No.5, 732-737 (2012) Agricultural Sciences /10.4236/as.2012.35088 Evaluation of phytophthora root rot-resistant Capsicum annuum accessions for resistance to phytophthora foliar blight and phytophthora stem blight 1 1* 2 Byron L. Candole , Patrick J. Conner , Pingsheng Ji 1Horticulture Department, University of Georgia-Tifton Campus, Tifton, USA; *Corresponding Author: pconner@ 2Plant Pathology Department, University of Georgia, Athens, USA Received 17 June 2012; revised 27 July 2012; accepted 3 August 2012 ABSTRACT causing a sudden wilt and collapse of the infected plant [4]. Foliar blight starts with small circular or irregular- A mixture of six Georgia isolates of Phyto- shaped lesions which later enlarge, dry, and bleach to a phthora capsici (Leon.), the causal agent of phy- light tan [5]. Phytophthora foliar blight can lead to seri- tophthora blight, were used for greenhouse ous crop losses when soil containing P. capsici contacts mass screening of over 700 accessions of Cap- leaves by rain splash or working in wet fields [6]. Stem sicum annuum for both stem blight and foliar lesions lead to an aerial blight where a black girdling blight. From this screening, it was determined lesion develops most commonly in the leaf and branch that resistance to both forms of the disease were axils and extends upward and downward. relatively common in the germplasm, but resis- The developmen