First Report of Stem Canker of Almond Trees Caused by Fusarium solani in Greece

Almond (Prunus dulcis) is an important crop for Greece grown on 15.130 ha in 2019. In September 2019, a severe stem canker disease was observed in 6-year-old trees of cv Marta grafted on the rootstock 'F675C14', in a new almond grove of cvs Marta, Soleta, Antonela, Belona and Laurete, in V...

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Publié dans:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2021) vom: 09. März
Auteur principal: Markakis, Emmanouil Alexandros (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Soultatos, Stefanos K, Kanetis, Loukas, Goumas, Dimitrios E
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2021
Accès à la collection:Plant disease
Sujets:Journal Article Fusarium solani Prunus dulcis gum stem canker wood dicoloration
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520 |a Almond (Prunus dulcis) is an important crop for Greece grown on 15.130 ha in 2019. In September 2019, a severe stem canker disease was observed in 6-year-old trees of cv Marta grafted on the rootstock 'F675C14', in a new almond grove of cvs Marta, Soleta, Antonela, Belona and Laurete, in Vlachiana, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Only cv Marta trees were affected. Diseased trees exhibited cankers on trunks and branches with pale yellow to red-colored gum excreting from cankers, yellowing, leaf fall, twig and branch dieback, bark and wood tissue discoloration. Severely affected trees were killed. A Fusarium-like fungus was consistently isolated from symptomatic wood tissue previously surface-disinfested with 95% ethanol, on acidified potato dextrose agar (APDA). Emerging colonies were transferred to new PDA and the growth rate of the fungus was 7.86 mm/day at 24 °C in the dark. The abundant aerial mycelium was initially white, turning into pale orange in the centre after 7 days of growth on PDA. Microscopic observations revealed hyaline conidiophores measuring 26.74 ± 20.44 μm in length, developing microconidia 5.00 to 9.50 × 2.50 to 4.75 μm (average 6.64 × 3.50 μm) and macroconidia 10.00 to 23.25 × 3.75 to 5.50 μm (average 16.42 × 4.50 μm) in size. DNA from one representative single-spore isolate (code KOUB.AM.VR1) was extracted and the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) of ribosomal DNA and translation elongation factor 1-alpha (EF 1-a) genes were amplified using the primer pairs ITS1/ITS4 (White et al. 1990) and EF1-F/EF2-R (O'Donnell et al. 1998), respectively. The PCR products were sequenced and deposited in GenBank (accession Nos. MW547397 and MW554492). Based on morphological characteristics (Leslie and Summerell 2006) and a BLAST search with 100.00% and 99.38% identity to published F. solani ITS and EF 1-a sequences in GenBank (KX034335.1, DQ247636.1) the fungus was identified as F. solani. Eight 3-year-old almond trees of cv. Marta were artificially inoculated in March 2020 by making a 6.0-mm-diameter hole into the trunk, inserting a 6-mm-diameter mycelial disc taken from a 10-day-old PDA culture, sealing the hole with cellophane membrane and covering with adhesive paper tape. Another eight trees of the same cultivar were mock-inoculated with sterilized PDA discs and served as controls. Potted trees were kept under ambient conditions. One month post inoculation, yellow gum was evident excreting around the inoculation point in F. solani-treated trees but not in the controls. Seven months post inoculation, longitudinal and transverse sections of inoculated trunks revealed internal and external symptoms similar to those observed under natural infection conditions and F. solani was steadily re-isolated from symptomatic wood tissue and identified by colony morphology. Neither symptoms nor positive isolations were observed in control trunks. Pathogenicity tests were repeated twice. Fusarium solani has been reported as the causal agent of stem canker or wood decay diseases in several woody hosts including bitternut hickory, black walnut, mulberry and pistachio trees (Crespo et al. 2019; Markakis et al. 2017; Park and Juzwik 2012; Tisserat 1987). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first worldwide report of stem canker caused by F. solani on almond tree. This disease could potentially be an increasing problem in almond growing areas and result in severe crop losses. Hence, effective management practices should be investigated and applied 
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