First Report of Damping-Off Caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG-4 on Mediterranean Fan Palm in Italy

Mediterranean fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.), one of just two autochthonous European palms, is native to the western Mediterranean Region in southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa. It can be found growing wild in the Mediterranean area. In Europe, this species is very popular as an ornamental...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - 94(2010), 1 vom: 13. Jan., Seite 125
1. Verfasser: Polizzi, G (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Aiello, D, Castello, I, Guarnaccia, V, Vitale, A
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2010
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a Mediterranean fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.), one of just two autochthonous European palms, is native to the western Mediterranean Region in southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa. It can be found growing wild in the Mediterranean area. In Europe, this species is very popular as an ornamental plant. In March 2009, a widespread damping-off was observed in a stock of approximately 30,000 potted 1-month-old plants of C. humilis cv. Vulcano in a nursery in eastern Sicily. Disease incidence was approximately 20%. Disease symptoms consisted of lesions at the seedling shoot (plumule). Stem lesions were initially orange, turned brown, and followed by death of the entire plumule or eophyll. A fungus with mycelial and morphological characteristics of Rhizoctonia solani Kühn was consistently isolated from lesions when plated on potato dextrose agar (PDA) amended with streptomycin sulfate at 100 μg/ml. Fungal colonies were initially white, turned brown with age, and produced irregularly shaped, brown sclerotia. Mycelium was branched at right angles with a septum near the branch and a slight constriction at the branch base. Hyphal cells removed from cultures grown at 25°C on 2% water agar were determined to be multinucleate when stained with 1% safranin O and 3% KOH solution (1) and examined at ×400. Anastomosis groups were determined by pairing isolates with tester strains AG-1 IA, AG-2-2-1, AG-2-2IIIB, AG-2-2IV, AG-3, AG-4, AG-5, AG-6, and AG-11 on 2% water agar in petri plates (3). Anastomosis was observed only with tester isolates of AG-4, giving both C2 and C3 reactions (2). One representative isolate obtained from symptomatic tissues was deposited at the Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS No. 125095). Pathogenicity tests were performed on container-grown, healthy, 1-month-old seedlings. Twenty plants of C. humilis cv. Vulcano were inoculated near the base of the stem with two 1-cm2 PDA plugs from 5-day-old mycelial cultures. The same number of plants served as uninoculated controls. Plants were incubated in a growth chamber and maintained at 25°C and 95% relative humidity on a 12-h fluorescent light/dark regimen. Symptoms identical to those observed in the nursery appeared 5 days after inoculation and all plants died within 20 days. No disease was observed on control plants. A fungus identical in culture morphology to R. solani AG-4 was consistently reisolated from symptomatic tissues, confirming its pathogenicity. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the world of R. solani causing damping-off on Mediterranean fan palm. References: (1) R. J. Bandoni. Mycologia 71:873, 1979. (2) D. E. Carling. Page 37 in: Grouping in Rhizoctonia solani by Hyphal Anastomosis Reactions. Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands, 1996. (3) C. C. Tu and J. W. Kimbrough. Mycologia 65:941, 1973 
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