First Report of Armillaria mellea on a Fern from Italy

Several perennial species of rhizomatous herbaceous ferns are cultivated as ornamental foliage plants. During late summer 1999, in a garden at the foot of Mount Etna, eastern Sicily (Italy), we noted a fern hedge showing patches of withered or stunted plants. The fern was identified as Cyrtomium fal...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - 84(2000), 5 vom: 30. Mai, Seite 592
1. Verfasser: Grasso, S (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Pane, A, Cacciola, S O
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2000
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
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520 |a Several perennial species of rhizomatous herbaceous ferns are cultivated as ornamental foliage plants. During late summer 1999, in a garden at the foot of Mount Etna, eastern Sicily (Italy), we noted a fern hedge showing patches of withered or stunted plants. The fern was identified as Cyrtomium falcatum (L.f.) C. Presl. (=Polystichum falcatum (L.f.) Diels), a house holly fern or Japanese holly fern, which is an ornamental fern native to East and South Asia. Other woody plants in the immediate vicinity had died over the last few years, including apricot and cedar trees whose stumps had not been removed. A close examination of uprooted ferns revealed the presence of creamy white fan-shaped mycelial mats with an odor typical of Armillaria species that were intermixed with the felt-like tangle formed by the rhizomes and roots of the ferns. In autumn, clumps of honey mushrooms with an annulus grew around patches of the withered fern hedge and in other parts of the same garden. The spore print of the basidiocarp was light cream. Basidiospores (8 to 9 × 5 to 6.5 µm) examined under a microscope were hyaline and apiculate. The fungus was isolated in pure culture from infected rhizomes with the selective medium of Kulman and Hendrix (3). In pure culture on 2% malt agar, the fungus formed ribbon-shaped, contorted, fast-growing rhizomorphs that branched profusely. Mycelial proteins of the isolate were analyzed by both polyacrylamide slab gel and starch gel electrophoreses, as described by Bragaloni et al. (1). The electrophoretic patterns of five isozymes (esterase, glutamic oxalacetic transaminase, phospho-glucomutase, alcohol dehydrogenase, and polygalacturonase) of the isolate from fern were identical to those of the reference isolate of A. mellea (Vahl:Fr.) Kumm. from grapevine. Conversely, the patterns were clearly distinct from those of reference isolates from other species, including A. ostoyae (Romagnesi) Herink, A. bulbosa (Barla) Kile et Watling, and A. cepistipes Velenovsky. Thus, on the basis of cultural, morphological, and biochemical characteristics, the species infecting the fern was identified as A. mellea. This pathogen, very common and widespread on wooded or previously wooded sites, has an extremely wide host range, encompassing both woody and herbaceous plants (2,4). However, this is the first report of A. mellea on a fern in Italy. References: (1) M. Bragaloni and N. Anselmi. Eur. J. For. Pathol. 27:147, 1997. (2) D. F. Farr et al. 1989. Fungi on Plants and Plants Products in the United States. The American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN. (3) E. G. Kulman and F. F. Hendrix. Phytopathology 52:1310, 1962. (4) C. G. Shaw and G. A. Kile. 1991 Armillaria root disease. Agric. Handb. No 691. U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Washington, DC 
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