First Report of Colletotrichum chrysophilum Causing Papaya Anthracnose in Mexico

Anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum spp., is the most important fungal disease of papaya (Carica papaya L.) worldwide. In March 2020, mature papaya fruit (cv. Maradol) showing typical symptoms of anthracnose were observed in an orchard located in Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, Mexico. Disease incidenc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2022) vom: 10. Mai
1. Verfasser: Pacheco-Esteva, Mary Carmen (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Soto-Castro, Delia, Vásquez-López, Alfonso, Lima, Nelson Bernardi, Tovar-Pedraza, Juan Manuel
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article <italic>Carica papaya</italic> Causal Agent Fungi pathogenicity phylogeny
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520 |a Anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum spp., is the most important fungal disease of papaya (Carica papaya L.) worldwide. In March 2020, mature papaya fruit (cv. Maradol) showing typical symptoms of anthracnose were observed in an orchard located in Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, Mexico. Disease incidence of 100 papaya plants surveyed in the orchard was estimated at about 45%. Initially, small and water-soaked lesions appeared on the fruit surface, which later enlarged to circular sunken lesions with translucent light brown margins. On advanced infections, salmon-pink masses of spores were observed on the lesions. Twenty Colletotrichum-like colonies were consistently isolated on potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium at 25°C in the dark for 6 days and 10 monoconidial isolates were obtained. An isolate was selected as representative for further characterization. The isolate was deposited as CPM-H4 in the Culture Collection of Phytopathogenic Fungi of Plant Pathology Laboratory of the CIIDIR-Oaxaca of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. On PDA, the colonies were initially light grey then later became dark grey with orange conidial masses after incubation for 7 days. Conidia (n= 50) were hyaline, aseptate, cylindrical with rounded ends, and measured 10.2 to 13.6 × 4.1 to 5.3 μm. Appressoria (n= 20) were mostly simple, solitary and smooth-walled, dark brown, and clavate, measuring 6.8 to 14.8 × 5.5 to 7.7 μm. Based on morphology, the isolate was tentatively identified as belonging to the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex (Weir et al. 2012). For molecular identification, total DNA was extracted, and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region (White et al. 1990), and partial sequences of actin (ACT), β-tubulin (TUB2), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), and chitin synthase (CHS-1) genes were amplified (Weir et al. 2012), and sequenced. The sequences were deposited in GenBank (accessions nos. OM965612 (ITS), OM959540 (ACT), ON065005 (TUB2), ON065003 (CHS-1), ON065004 (GAPDH). A phylogenetic tree based on Bayesian inference and including published ITS, ACT, TUB2, GAPDH, and CHS-1 sequence dataset for Colletotrichum spp. was constructed. The multilocus phylogenetic analysis clearly distinguished the isolate CPM-H4 as Colletotrichum chrysophilum. Pathogenicity of the fungus was verified on 10 healthy papaya fruits (cv. Maradol) without wounds. A drop of a conidial suspension (1 × 105 spores/ml) was placed on three locations on each fruit. Ten control fruit were treated in the same way but with sterilized water. The fruits were kept in a moist plastic chamber at 25°C and 12 h light/dark for 8 days. The pathogenicity test was repeated twice. All inoculated papaya fruits developed sunken necrotic lesions 6 days after inoculation, whereas no symptoms were observed on the control fruits. The fungus was consistently re-isolated only from the diseased fruits and found to be morphologically identical to the isolate used for inoculation, fulfilling Koch´s postulates. Colletotrichum chrysophilum has been previously reported to cause anthracnose on mango (Fuentes-Aragón et al. 2020a), avocado (Fuentes-Aragón et al. 2020b), and banana (Fuentes-Aragón et al. 2021) in Mexico; however, to our knowledge, this is the first report of C. chrysophilum causing papaya anthracnose in Mexico. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the diversity of Colletotrichum species associated with papaya in Mexico through subsequent phylogenetic studies as well as to monitor the possible movement and distribution of this pathogen into other Mexican regions 
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