Global InformationMonilinia oxycocci information
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Leotiomycetes |
| Order: | Helotiales |
| Family: | Sclerotiniaceae |
| Genus: | Monilinia |
| Species: | M. oxycocci
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| Monilinia oxycocci Honey
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Monilinia oxycocci (Woronin) Honey, (synonym Sclerotinia oxycocci), common names cranberry cottonball, cranberry hard rot, tip blight, is a fungal infection of large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) and small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos).[1] The tips of young flowering shoots wilt before they flower. Fruit that forms on the plant can then be infected by the asexual spores[2] traveling through the plant, causing the berries to harden, turn cottony on the inside, and dry out instead of maturing.[3] The berries are filled with a cotton-like fungus and are generally yellowish with tan stripes or blotches at maturity, making them unmarketable.[4] It results in important economic impacts on many cranberry marshes, particularly in Wisconsin.
- ^ Polashock, James J.; Caruso, Frank L.; Averill, Anne L.; Schilder, Annemiek C. (2017). "Cottonball". Compendium of Blueberry, Cranberry, and Lingonberry Diseases and Pests (2nd ed.). St. Paul, MN: APS Publications. pp. 96–98. doi:10.1094/9780890545386. ISBN 978-0-89054-538-6.
- ^ Sanderson, P. G.; S. N. Jeffers (1992). "Cranberry Cottonball: Dispersal Periods of Primary and Secondary Inocula of Monilinia oxycocci, Host Susceptibility, and Disease Development". Phytopathology. 82 (4): 384. doi:10.1094/Phyto-82-384.
- ^ Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2007. pp. 496–497. ISBN 978-1-4020-4585-1.
- ^ McManus, P.S. (1999). "Cottonball Disease of Cranberry". Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.