First Report of Crown and Root Rot Caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG-4 on Coprosma repens and C. lucida in Italy

Coprosma (J.R. Forster & G. Forster), a genus containing approximately 90 species, occurs principally in New Zealand, Hawaii, Australia, New Guinea, and islands of the Pacific. In Italy, some of these species, including many variegated varieties and hybrids, are grown as ornamental evergreen shr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - 93(2009), 9 vom: 13. Sept., Seite 972
1. Verfasser: Polizzi, G (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Aiello, D, Castello, I, Vitale, A
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2009
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a Coprosma (J.R. Forster & G. Forster), a genus containing approximately 90 species, occurs principally in New Zealand, Hawaii, Australia, New Guinea, and islands of the Pacific. In Italy, some of these species, including many variegated varieties and hybrids, are grown as ornamental evergreen shrubs or small trees. In June 2008, a crown and root rot was observed in a stock of approximately 12,000 potted 3-year-old plants of Coprosma repens cv. Yvonne and C. lucida in a nursery in eastern Sicily. Disease incidence was approximately 30%. Disease symptoms consisted of water-soaked lesions at the crown of the trunk and a root rot. Successively, older stem lesions turned orange to brown. As a consequence, leaves initially became chlorotic, gradually became necrotic, and death of the plant followed. A fungus with mycelial and morphological characteristics of Rhizoctonia solani Kühn was consistently isolated from crown and root 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 on 2% water agar in petri plates (3). Pairings were made with tester strains of AG-1 IA, AG-2-2-1, AG-2-2IIIB, AG-2-2IV, AG-3, AG-4, AG-5, AG-6, and AG-11. Anastomosis was observed only with tester isolates of AG-4, giving C2 and C3 reactions (2). Two representative isolates obtained from symptomatic tissues of C. lucida and C. repens cv. Yvonne were deposited at the Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (DISTEF CL1 = CBS-124593 and DISTEF CR1 = CBS-124594, respectively). Pathogenicity tests were performed on container-grown, healthy, 3-month-old cuttings. Ten plants of C. lucida and ten plants of C. repens cv. Yvonne were inoculated near the base of the stem with five 1-cm2 PDA plugs from 5-day-old mycelial cultures. The same number of plants served as uninoculated controls. Plants were maintained at 25°C and 95% relative humidity on a 12-h fluorescent light/dark regimen. Symptoms identical to ones observed in the nursery appeared 5 days after inoculation and all plants died within 15 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 of R. solani causing crown and root rot on the genus Coprosma. 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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