Influence of Fruit Maturity, Cultivar Susceptibility, and Inoculation Method on Infection of Olive Fruit by Colletotrichum acutatum

Detached olive (Olea europaea) fruit inoculated with isolates of Colletotrichum acutatum, causal agent of olive anthracnose, were used to study host-pathogen interactions. Fruit susceptibility increased with increasing fruit maturity. Wounded fruit were more severely affected than nonwounded fruit;...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - 92(2008), 10 vom: 11. Okt., Seite 1421-1426
1. Verfasser: Moral, J (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Bouhmidi, K, Trapero, A
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2008
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article aceituna jabonosa fruit rot
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Zusammenfassung:Detached olive (Olea europaea) fruit inoculated with isolates of Colletotrichum acutatum, causal agent of olive anthracnose, were used to study host-pathogen interactions. Fruit susceptibility increased with increasing fruit maturity. Wounded fruit were more severely affected than nonwounded fruit; however, the wound effect depended on cultivar and inoculation method. Severity of fruit infection increased with inoculum density, although this effect also depended on fruit maturity and cultivar susceptibility. The susceptibility of selected olive cultivars to anthracnose under field conditions correlated well with the response of immature fruit under controlled conditions. As fruit matured, there were fewer differences among cultivars. Based on these results, an inoculation method using immature green fruit and high inoculum densities (105 to 106 conidia/ml) sprayed on the fruit has been proposed to evaluate olive cultivars for anthracnose resistance under controlled conditions
Beschreibung:Date Revised 20.11.2019
published: Print
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:0191-2917
DOI:10.1094/PDIS-92-10-1421