First Report On Neodeightonia Phoenicum As A Potential Contaminant Of Date Palm Tissue Culture In Iraq

Abstract

In this work, the fungal species Neodeightonia phoenicum was isolated from date palm tissue cultures and characterised morphologically and molecularly by using internal transcribed spacer primers. Notably, N. phoenicum has not been previously reported as a causal agent of fungal contamination in date palm tissue cultures in Iraq .