First Report of Root and Stem Rot Caused by Phytophthora nicotianae on Peperomia tetraphylla in China

Peperomia tetraphylla, an evergreen herb, is becoming increasingly popular as a potted ornamental plant in southern China. In the summer of 2008, in some commercial flower nurseries in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, P. tetraphylla showed extensive black stem and root rot, with leaves dropping from th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - 94(2010), 9 vom: 31. Sept., Seite 1171
1. Verfasser: Zeng, D X (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wu, X L, Li, Y H
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2010
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a Peperomia tetraphylla, an evergreen herb, is becoming increasingly popular as a potted ornamental plant in southern China. In the summer of 2008, in some commercial flower nurseries in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, P. tetraphylla showed extensive black stem and root rot, with leaves dropping from the rotten stem. Small pieces (approximately 3 mm2) of stems and leaves were excised from the margins of the black lesions, surface disinfected for 30 s to 1 min in 0.1% HgCl2, plated onto potato dextrose agar (PDA), and incubated at 25°C in the dark. All the plated samples yielded Phytophthora, and microscopic examination of pure cultures grown on PDA plates showed arachnoid colonies with abundant aerial mycelium, chlamydospores, and a few sporangia. Numerous sporangia were formed in sterile soil extract. Sporangia were ovoid or obpyriform, noncaducous, with prominent solitary papillae, and measured 31 to 52 μm (average 38 μm) × 21 to 34 μm (average 27 μm). Chlamydospores were spherical and 21 to 34 μm in diameter (average 28 μm). The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of rDNA of a single isolate was amplified using primers ITS4/ITS5 and sequenced (2). The ITS sequence, when submitted for a BLAST search in the NCBI database, showed 100% homology with the sequences of two reference isolates of Phytophthora nicotianae (Accession Nos. AY833526 and EU433396) and the consensus ITS sequence was deposited in the NCBI as Accession No. GQ499373. The isolate was identified as Phytophthora nicotianae on the basis of morphological and molecular characteristics (1). Pathogenicity of the isolate was confirmed by inoculating 1-year-old plants of P. tetraphylla growing in pots. The isolate was grown for 7 days on PDA plates and mycelial plugs, 5 mm in diameter and taken from the advancing margins of the colonies, were buried approximately 1 cm deep near the base of the stem in such a way that the mycelium on the plugs was in contact with the surface of the stem, which had been wiped earlier with 70% ethanol and gently wounded with a needle. Plants treated the same way but inoculated with sterile PDA plugs served as control plants. Three plants in each pot were inoculated and there were five replications each for the treatment and the control. All plants were kept in a greenhouse at 22 to 32°C. After 6 to 7 days, the inoculated plants showed black lesions around the mycelial plugs; symptoms of root and stem rot developed rapidly thereafter and the plants collapsed within 2 weeks. All symptoms on the inoculated plants were identical to those observed in naturally diseased plants, whereas the control plants remained healthy. The same fungus was consistently reisolated from the inoculated plants. To our knowledge, this is the first report of Phytophthora nicotianae on P. tetraphylla in China. References: (1) D. C. Erwin and O. K. Ribeiro. Phytophthora Diseases Worldwide. The American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN, 1996. (2) J. B. Ristaino et al. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:948, 1998 
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