First Report of Leaf Spot Disease Caused by Epicoccum nigrum on Smooth Bromegrass (Bromus inermis) in China

Smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss.) is an excellent forage species widely distributed in Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and other provinces of China (Gong et al. 2019). In July 2021, typical leaf spot symptoms were observed on the leaves of smooth bromegrass plants in Ewenki Banner of Hulun B...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2023) vom: 21. Feb.
1. Verfasser: Wang, Le (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lin, Kejian, Liu, Huan, Hao, Lifen, Chen, Zhengqiang, Gao, Shujing, Zhang, Yuanyuan
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Causal Agent Crop Type Epidemiology Field crops Fungi Pathogen detection Subject Areas disease development and spread other
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520 |a Smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss.) is an excellent forage species widely distributed in Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and other provinces of China (Gong et al. 2019). In July 2021, typical leaf spot symptoms were observed on the leaves of smooth bromegrass plants in Ewenki Banner of Hulun Buir, China (49°5'8″N, 119°44'28″E, alt. 622.5 m). Approximately 90% of plants were affected, with symptoms apparent throughout the plant but mainly concentrated on the lower middle leaves. We collected 11 plants to identify the causal pathogen of leaf spot on smooth bromegrass. Samples (5×5 mm) of symptomatic leaves were excised and surface-sanitized with 75% ethanol for 3 min, rinsed three times with sterile distilled water, and incubated on water agar (WA) at 25℃ for three days. The lumps were cut along the edges and transplanted to potato dextrose agar (PDA) for subculture. After two purification cultures, ten strains, termed HE2 to HE11, were collected. The front side of the colony morphology was cottony or woolly, the center was greyish-green, circled with greyish-white color, with reddish pigmentation on the reverse. The conidia were globose or subglobose, yellow-brown or dark brown, with surface verrucae, and 23.89±3.76×20.28±3.23 μm (n = 50) in size. The morphological characteristics of the mycelia and conidia of the strains mtched those of Epicoccum nigrum (El-Sayed et al. 2020). The primers ITS1/ITS4 (White et al. 1991), LROR/LR7 (Rehner and Samuels 1994), 5F2/7cR (Sung et al. 2007), and TUB2Fd/TUB4Rd (Woudenberg et al. 2009) were used to amplify and sequence four phylogenic loci (ITS, LSU, RPB2 and β-tubulin), respectively. The sequences of ten strains have been deposited in GenBank, and the detailed accession numbers were shown in Table S1. BLAST analysis of these sequences showed 99-100%, 96-98%, 97-99% and 99-100% homology with the E. nigrum strain in the ITS, LSU, RPB2 and TUB sequenced regions, respectively. The sequences of ten test strains and other Epicoccum spp. strains obtained from GenBank were aligned by ClustalW by MEGA (version 11.0) software. After a series of alignment, cutting and splicing, the phylogenetic tree was constructed by the neighbor-joining method with 1000 bootstrap replicates based on the ITS, LSU, RPB2, and TUB sequences. The test strains were clustered together with E. nigrum, with branch support rate of 100%. Combined with morphological and molecular biological characteristics, ten strains were identified as E. nigrum. For the pathogenicity test, the seeds of smooth bromegrass were soaked for four days and then sown into six pots (10 cm diameter × 15 cm height) and kept in a greenhouse under a 16-h photoperiod with temperatures of 20-25°C and 60% relative humidity. Microconidia of the strain produced on wheat bran medium after 10 days were washed with sterile deionized water, filtered through three layers of sterile cheese cloth, quantified, and the concentration adjusted to 1 × 106 microconidia/ml with a hemocytometer. When the plants had grown to a height of about 20 cm, the leaves of plants in three pots were sprayed with the spore suspension, 10 mL per pot, while the remaining three pots were inoculated with sterile water and served as controls (LeBoldus and Jared 2010). The inoculated plants were cultured in an artificial climate box under a 16-h photoperiod with temperatures of 24°C and 60% relative humidity. Brown spots were apparent on the leaves of the treated plants after five days, whereas the leaves of the controls remained healthy. The same E. nigum strain were re-isolated from the inoculated plants and identified by the morphological and molecular techniques described above. To our knowledge, this is the first report of leaf spot disease caused by E. nigrum on smooth bromegrass in China, as well as in the world. Infection with this pathogen could reduce the yield and quality of smooth bromegrass production. For this reason, strategies for the management and control of this disease should be developed and implemented 
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700 1 |a Zhang, Yuanyuan  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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