First report of Alternaria alternata causing leaf blight on Actaea dahurica in China

In July 2019, leaf blight on Actaea dahurica, a plant with high value in Chinese traditional medicine, was discovered in a 2 ha planting area in Heilongjiang Province (129.6°E, 44.6°N), China. Disease incidence was 90% in the field. Symptoms consisted of irregular black spots with gray margins on bo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2022) vom: 29. Apr.
1. Verfasser: Sun, Hai Feng (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Yang, Hongyu, Mu, Xi Jun, Wang, Han, Li, Na, Yan, Yu, Wei, Ming Yu
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Alternaria alternata leaf blight molecular biological analysis morphological analysis
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520 |a In July 2019, leaf blight on Actaea dahurica, a plant with high value in Chinese traditional medicine, was discovered in a 2 ha planting area in Heilongjiang Province (129.6°E, 44.6°N), China. Disease incidence was 90% in the field. Symptoms consisted of irregular black spots with gray margins on both sides of the leaf, often at the leaf margin, mostly on the older leaves. To isolate the pathogen, ten diseased leaves were randomly collected, surface disinfested, and 5 x 5 mm segments were removed from the margin of the lesions. Leaf segments were placed onto potato dextrose agar (PDA) and incubated at 25 ℃ for 7 days. Ten pure cultures with the same morphological characteristics were obtained from three leaves showing typical symptoms. Cultures on PDA initially had a cottony mycelium, white-gray to gray. After two to three weeks of growth, mycelium color changed from gray to black. Conidiophores were clustered, dark at the base, tapering to the apex, born from simple sublates, unbranched, with 1 to 5 septa, and 70.4-530.3 × 5-7.5 μm in size. Conidia were 12.5-82.5 × 5.2-20.3 μm, usually in chains, had 2 to 8 transverse septa, 0 to 4 longitudinal or oblique septa, and a smooth brown surface. Simple, pale, vimineous or verrucous beaks developed from the apical cells with 0 to 4 septa. The morphological characteristics were consistent with Alternaria species (Simmons, 2007). To fulfill Koch's postulates, pathogenicity tests were carried out on three-month-old A. dahurica plants. A spore suspension was prepared from PDA cultures of isolates SM0101 and SM0102 and adjusted to 105 spores/mL using a hemocytometer. Each leaf was sprayed with 2 mL of the spore suspension, then incubated at 25 ℃ for 7 days. The same number of healthy A. dahurica plants were sprayed with sterile water as a control. After 7 days, small brown necrotic spots appeared on inoculated plants, but the control group showed no symptoms. A fungus with the same characteristics as that used for inoculation was re-isolated from the lesions. This experiment was replicated three times, and the results of each experiment were consistent. Genomic DNA was extracted from isolates SM0101 and SM0102 and used for PCR amplification of the rDNA internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS), RNA polymerase II gene (RPB2) and Alternaria allergen a 1 (Alt a 1) gene sequences using the primer pairs ITS1/ITS4 (White et al. 1990), RPB2-5F2/RPB2-7CR (Khodaei and Arzanlou, 2013) and Alt-for/Alt-rev (Hong et al. 2005), respectively. The ITS (OL703042, OL616086), RPB2 (OL703043, OL898416), and Alt a 1 sequences (OL616087, OL898415) were deposited in GenBank. The sequences obtained in this study had the highest match to corresponding sequences of Alternaria alternata CBS 916.96 (AF347031, KC584375, AY563301). For isolate SM0101 the matches were ITS (461/461 bp), RPB2 (897/985 bp), and Alt a 1 (488/488 bp). For isolate SM0202 the matches were ITS (457/457 bp), RPB2 (893/985 bp), and Alt a 1 (484/484 bp). A phylogenetic analysis was performed using MEGA7 software. The alignment included sequences from 16 ex-type Alternaria species and the two isolates causing leaf blight on A. dahurica. Branch supports were calculated with 1,000 bootstrap replicates, and phylogenetic inference was performed using the maximum likelihood estimation. The fungus isolated from A. dahurica clustered with A. alternata. This is the first report of A. alternata on A. dahurica in the world. This report will help to identify the disease symptoms in the field and provides a basis for research into the occurrence, distribution, and control of leaf blight on A. dahurica 
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