Correction: Fast detection of penicillium rot and the conservation status of packaged citrus fruit using an optical array sensor.

Correction for 'Fast detection of penicillium rot and the conservation status of packaged citrus fruit using an optical array sensor' by Alessia Cavallaro , , 2024, , 13702-13705, https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CC04700A.

Fast detection of penicillium rot and the conservation status of packaged citrus fruit using an optical array sensor.

A novel optical array sensor designed to detect the conservation status of citrus fruit as well as contamination of ripened fruits by green mold incited by the fungus is reported here. The device demonstrates high sensitivity, specificity, and cost-effectiveness, making it suitable for integration into the citrus fruit supply chain, including production and packaging systems.

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A dieback was observed on three-year-old pot-grown plants of in Sicily (Italy). Symptoms, including stunting, yellowing and blight of the leaf crown, root rot and internal browning and decay of the basal stem, closely resembled the Phytophthora root and crown rot syndrome, common in other ornamentals. Isolations from rotten stem and roots, using a selective medium, and from rhizosphere soil of symptomatic plants, using leaf baiting, yielded three species, , and , were obtained.

Bot Gummosis of Lemon ( × ) Caused by .

, in the family Botryosphaeriaceae, was identified as the causal agent of bot gummosis of lemon ( × ) trees, in the two major lemon-producing regions in Italy. Gummy cankers on trunk and scaffold branches of mature trees were the most typical disease symptoms. was the sole fungus constantly and consistently isolated from the canker bark of symptomatic lemon trees.