First Report of Maize Stalk Rot Caused by Fusarium kyushuense in China

During 2017 to 2019, a field survey for maize stalk rot was conducted in 21 counties (districts) across the Guangxi province of China. This disease caused yield losses ranging from 20% to 30%. Maize plants with stalk rot were collected during the late milk stage and pieces of diseased pith tissue we...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2021) vom: 27. Apr.
1. Verfasser: Cao, Yanyong (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Zhang, Jie, Han, Shengbo, Xia, Laikun, Ma, Juan, Wang, Lifeng, Li, Huiyong, Yang, Lirong, Sun, Suli, Zhu, Zhendong, Duan, Canxing
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Fusarium kyushuense Maize stalk rot Molecular identification Morphological characteristics Pathogenicity determination Phylogenetic analysis
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520 |a During 2017 to 2019, a field survey for maize stalk rot was conducted in 21 counties (districts) across the Guangxi province of China. This disease caused yield losses ranging from 20% to 30%. Maize plants with stalk rot were collected during the late milk stage and pieces of diseased pith tissue were cultured as previously described (Shan et al. 2017). Fungal colonies and mycelia with morphological characteristics of Fusarium species were subcultured onto fresh potato dextrose agar (PDA) and carnation leaf agar (CLA) plates. Based on morphological characteristics and molecular detection by amplification of Fusarium genus-specific primers (Duan et al. 2016), 39 Fusarium isolates were identified. Among them, five isolates from Du'an, Pingguo, Debao, and Daxin had abundant, pale orange to yellow aerial mycelium with deep red pigments when grown on PDA (Fig. 1A; 1B). The average growth rate was 8.0 to 12.0 mm per day at 25°C in the dark. The fungi produced two types of spores on CLA. Microconidia were ovoid to clavate, generally 0- to 3-septate, and 4.6 to 9.4 μm in length (n = 30) (Fig. 1D); Macroconidia were slightly curved with an acute apical cell, mostly 3- to 4- septate, and 19.4 to 38.2 μm in length (n = 30) (Fig. 1C). No chlamydospores were observed. These five isolates were initially identified as Fusarium kyushuense based on morphological features. PCR was performed to amplify three phylogenetic genes (TEF1-α, RPB1, and RPB2) (O'Donnell et al. 1998) and species specific primers kyuR1F/kyuR1R (5-TTTTCCTCACCAAGGAGCAGATCATG-3/5-TCCAATGGACTGGGCAGCCAAAACACC-3), kyuR2F/kyuR2R (5-CAGATATACATTTGCCTCGACAC-3/5-TACTTGAGCACGGAGCTTG-3) were used to confirm species identity. The obtained sequences were deposited in GenBank under the accession numbers MT997084, MT997080, MT997081 (TEF1-α); MT550012, MT997085, MT997086 (RPB1); MT550009, MT997089, and MT997090 (RPB2), respectively. Using BLAST, sequences of TEF1-α, RPB1, and RPB2 of the isolates were 99.33% (MH582297.1) to 100% (MG282364.1) similar to those of F. kyushuense strains (Supplementary Table 1). Based on phylogenetic analysis with maximum likelihood methods using tools of the website of CIPRES (http://www.phylo.org), isolates GX27, GX167, and GX204 clustered with F. kyushuense with 100% bootstrap support (Fig. 2). The pathogenicity of the three isolates was tested using young seedlings and adult plants as previously described with modification (Ye et al. 2013; Zhang et al. 2016). The primary roots of three-leaf-old seedlings were inoculated by immersing the roots into a 1 × 106 macroconidia solution, incubating for 6 h at 25°C, and transferring to normal growth conditions (26°C, 16 h light/22°C, 8 h dark). The second or third internode above the soil surface of flowering stage plants grown in a greenhouse was bored with a Bosch electric drill to make a hole (ca. 8 mm in diameter) and inoculated with 0.5 mL of mycelia plug then sealed with petrolatum. The inoculum was created by homogenizing five plates of flourish hyphal mats (approximately 125 mL) with kitchen blender and adjusting to a final volume of 200 mL with sterilized ddH2O. No symptoms were observed in the seedlings or adult plants that were mock-inoculated with PDA plugs. Three days post-inoculation (dpi), roots of the infected seedling turned dark-brown and shrunk and the leaves wilted (Fig. 1E). Typical stalk rot symptoms observed in the inoculated plants were premature wilting of entire plant and hollow and weak stalks, leading to lodging; the longitudinal section of the internodes exhibited obvious dark brown necrosis and reddish discoloration at 14 dpi and 30 dpi, respectively (Fig. 1F). Fusarium kyushuense was re-isolated from the inoculated stalk lesions but not from the control. This is the first record of stalk rot caused by F. kyushuense on maize plants in China. However, F. kyushuense is known to cause maize ear rot in China (Wang et al. 2014) and can produce type A and type B trichothecene mycotoxins in kernels (Aoki and O'Donnell 1998). The occurrence of maize stalk rot and ear rot caused by F. kyushuense should be monitored in China due to the potential risk for crop loss and mycotoxin contamination 
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650 4 |a Morphological characteristics 
650 4 |a Pathogenicity determination 
650 4 |a Phylogenetic analysis 
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700 1 |a Han, Shengbo  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Xia, Laikun  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Ma, Juan  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Wang, Lifeng  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Li, Huiyong  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Yang, Lirong  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Sun, Suli  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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700 1 |a Duan, Canxing  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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