First report of Fusarium incarnatum causing fruit rot of litchi in China

Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) is an indigenous tropical and subtropical fruit in Southern China with an attractive appearance, delicious taste, and good nutritional value (Jiang et al. 2003). In March 2020, brown rots were observed on nearly ripe litchi fruits (cv. Guihuaxiang) in an orchard of Li...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2021) vom: 02. Feb.
1. Verfasser: Gao, Zhaoyin (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wang, Jiaobao, Zhang, Zhengke, Li, Min, Gong, Deqiang, Hong, Xiaoyu, Li, Huanling, Wang, Yi, Zhao, Chao, Hu, Meijiao
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Fusarium incarnatum fruit rot litchi
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520 |a Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) is an indigenous tropical and subtropical fruit in Southern China with an attractive appearance, delicious taste, and good nutritional value (Jiang et al. 2003). In March 2020, brown rots were observed on nearly ripe litchi fruits (cv. Guihuaxiang) in an orchard of Lingshui county, Hainan province of China (18.615877° N, 109.948871° E). About 5% fruits were symptomatic in the field, and the disease caused postharvest losses during storage. The initial infected fruits had no obvious symptoms on the outer pericarp surfaces, but appeared irregular, brown to black-brown lesions in the inner pericarps around the pedicels. Then lesions expanded and became brown rots. Small tissues (4 mm × 4 mm) of fruit pericarps were cut from symptomatic fruits, surface-sterilized in 1% sodium hypochlorite for 3 min, rinsed in sterilized water three times, plated on potato dextrose agar (PDA) and incubated at 28℃ in the darkness. Morphologically similar colonies were isolated from 85% of 20 samples after 4 days of incubation. Ten isolates were purified using a single-spore isolation method. The isolates grown on PDA had abundant, fluffy, whitish to yellowish aerial mycelia, and the reverse side of the Petri dish was pale brown. Morphological characteristics of conidia were further determined on carnation leaf-piece agar (CLA) (Leslie et al. 2006). Macroconidia were straight to slightly curved, 3- to 5-septates with a foot-shaped basal cell, tapered at the apex, 2.70 to 4.43 µm × 18.63 to 37.58 µm (3.56 ± 0.36 × 28.68 ± 4.34 µm) (n = 100). Microconidia were fusoid to ovoid, 0- to 1-septate, 2.10 to 3.57 µm × 8.18 to 18.20 µm (2.88 ± 0.34 × 11.71 ± 1.97 µm) (n = 100). Chlamydospores on hyphae singly or in chains were globose, subglobose, or ellipsoidal. Based on cultural features and morphological characteristics, the fungus was identified as a Fusarium species (Leslie et al. 2006). To further confirm the pathogen, DNA was extracted from the 7-day-old aerial mycelia of three isolates (LZ-1, LZ-3, and LZ-5) following Chohan et al. (2019). The sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region of rDNA (ITS), translation elongation factor-1 alpha (tef1) gene, and histone H3 (his3) gene were partially amplified using primers ITS1/ITS4, EF1-728F/EF1-986R, and CYLH3F/CYLH3R, respectively (Funnell-Harris et al. 2017). The nucleotide sequences were deposited in GenBank (ITS: 515 bp, MW029882, 533 bp, MW092186, and 465 bp, MW092187; tef1: 292 bp, MW034437, 262 bp, MW159143, and 292 bp, MW159141; his3: 489 bp, MW034438, 477 bp, MW159142, and 474 bp, MW159140). The ITS, tef1, and his3 genes showed 99-100% similarity with the ITS (MH979697), tef1 (MH979698), and his3 (MH979696) genes, respectively of Fusarium incarnatum (TG0520) from muskmelon fruit. The phylogenetic analysis of the tef1 and his3 gene sequences showed that the three isolates clustered with F. incarnatum. Pathogenicity tests were conducted by spraying conidial suspension (1×106 conidia/ml) on wounded young fruits in the orchid. Negative controls were sprayed with sterilized water. Fruits were bagged with polythene bags for 24 hours and then unbagged for 10 days. Each treatment had 30 fruits. The inoculated fruits developed symptoms similar to those observed in the orchard and showed light brown lesions on the outer pericarp surfaces and irregular, brown to black-brown lesions in the inner pericarps, while the fruits of negative control remained symptomless. The same fungus was successfully recovered from symptomatic fruits, and thus, the test for the Koch's postulates was completed. F. semitectum (synonym: F. incarnatum) (Saha et al. 2005), F. oxysporum (Bashar et al. 2012), and F. moniliforme (Rashid et al. 2015) have been previously reported as pathogens causing litchi fruit rots in India and Bangladesh. To our knowledge, this is the first report of Fusarium incarnatum causing litchi fruit rot in China 
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700 1 |a Zhang, Zhengke  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Li, Min  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Gong, Deqiang  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Hong, Xiaoyu  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Li, Huanling  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Wang, Yi  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Zhao, Chao  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Hu, Meijiao  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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