Article ; Online: First Report of Leaf Spot on Pecan Caused by Choanephora cucurbitarum in China
Plant Disease. 2023 July 01, v. 107, no. 7 p.2241-
2023
Abstract: Pecan (Carya illinoinensis K. Koch) is an important and widely planted nut tree species in Jiangsu Province, China (Mo et al. 2018). In July 2020, leaf spot symptoms were frequently observed on pecan in Jurong, Jiangsu Province (32°1′6″N, 119°15′36″E). ... ...
Abstract | Pecan (Carya illinoinensis K. Koch) is an important and widely planted nut tree species in Jiangsu Province, China (Mo et al. 2018). In July 2020, leaf spot symptoms were frequently observed on pecan in Jurong, Jiangsu Province (32°1′6″N, 119°15′36″E). Disease incidences ranged from 40 to 65% among 150 mature pecan trees from three nurseries. The disease severity index (Jiang et al. 2019) reached 58.4. Symptoms began as small brown spots scattered on leaves that gradually expanded to large, circular to irregular black and brown necrotic lesions. In severe cases, lesions developed on large portions of a single leaf, and eventually the dead leaves fell from the trees. Three monoconidial isolates (JSAFC2346, JSAFC2347, and JSAFC2348) were isolated from lesion margins and cultured on potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium. Colonies on PDA were white and cottony, later becoming light gray with abundant reproductive structures. Sporangiophores were aseptate, hyaline, unbranched, and apically dilated to form a clavate vesicle, which produced sporangia. Sporangia were globular to ellipsoid, brown to dark brown, 103 to 128 μm in length, and 88 to 114 μm in width (n = 30). Sporangiola were brown, ellipsoid to ovoid, with longitudinal striae, and 13.9 to 18.8 × 7.9 to 10.8 μm (n = 60). The morphological characteristics of these isolates agreed with descriptions of Choanephora cucurbitarum (Kirk 1984). Genomic DNA of these three monoconidial isolates was extracted, and the partial sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and large subunit (LSU) of rDNA were amplified using primer pairs ITS1/ITS4 (White et al. 1990) and LR0R/LR7 (Vilgalys and Hester 1990), respectively. The consensus sequences (GenBank accession nos.: OP315248 to OP315250 for ITS and OP315251 to OP315253 for LSU) were aligned using BLASTn and showed 100% identity with the sequences from C. cucurbitarum found in GenBank (accession nos.: MF942131 for ITS and ON025788 for LSU). To further confirm the identity, a phylogenetic analysis was performed with MEGA (v.7.0) and MrBayes (v.3.1.2) software, using the maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference methods, respectively. The multigene phylogeny revealed that the three isolates in this study as well as a C. cucurbitarum specimen clustered as a strongly supported monophyletic group (99 bootstrap value; 0.95 posterior probabilities). Based on the morphological and molecular data, the isolates were identified as C. cucurbitarum. To confirm pathogenicity, healthy pecan seedlings (2 years old) were inoculated with a mycelial block (3 × 3 mm) excised from the margin of a colony on the vein of each leaf. Seedlings treated with noncolonized PDA blocks were used as controls. The inoculated seedlings were maintained in sterile plastic boxes with moistened sheets of filter paper at 25 ± 1°C and a 12-h photoperiod. Fifteen leaves per isolate were tested for each treatment. The experiment was repeated twice. Three days after inoculation, symptoms similar to those in the field appeared, whereas the control leaves remained symptomless. Subsequently, C. cucurbitarum was reisolated from the lesions and morphologically identified, confirming Koch’s postulates. To our knowledge, this is the first report of C. cucurbitarum causing leaf spot on C. illinoinensis in China. This study provides a foundation to further investigate the biology, epidemiology, and management of this disease. |
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Keywords | Bayesian theory ; Carya illinoinensis ; Choanephora cucurbitarum ; DNA ; computer software ; culture media ; disease severity ; internal transcribed spacers ; leaf spot ; leaves ; monophyly ; mycelium ; pathogenicity ; pecans ; sporangia ; statistical analysis ; trees ; China ; pathogen detection ; tropical plants |
Language | English |
Dates of publication | 2023-0701 |
Publishing place | The American Phytopathological Society |
Document type | Article ; Online |
ZDB-ID | 754182-x |
ISSN | 0191-2917 |
ISSN | 0191-2917 |
DOI | 10.1094/PDIS-09-22-2240-PDN |
Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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