First report of Fusarium falciforme causing root rot of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) in China

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is a deciduous shrub or small tree that is native to Iran and Afghanistan. It is also a commercially important fruit tree in China and worldwide. In the summer of 2022, a serious root rot disease occurred in some pomegranate orchards in Xichuan County(32º42´ N, 111º4...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2023) vom: 21. Juni
1. Verfasser: Fu, Gang (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Liu, Siqing, Du, Chan Juan, Yang, Di, Jiang, Shangbo, Zhang, Jin, Pan, Lian Fu, Huang, Siliang, Ye, Yunfeng
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Fusarium falciforme Punica granatum pomegranate root rot
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520 |a Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is a deciduous shrub or small tree that is native to Iran and Afghanistan. It is also a commercially important fruit tree in China and worldwide. In the summer of 2022, a serious root rot disease occurred in some pomegranate orchards in Xichuan County(32º42´ N, 111º48´ E), Henan Province, China, with an incidence of ~30%. Symptoms included leaf yellowing and wilting, root browning and rotting, and stem-base cracking, eventually leading to defoliation and death. To isolate the causal agent, small pieces (5×5 mm) of diseased root from six trees were surface-sterilized by dipping in 2% NaClO for 8 min followed by 70% ethanol for 15 s, rinsed five times with sterile water, and plated on potato dextrose agar (PDA), then incubated at 28°C in the dark for 5 days. Fifteen pure fungal isolates with the same morphological characteristics were obtained from 24 pieces of roots. All isolates produced white fluffy mycelia. Microconidia were hyaline, oval or reniform, with zero to one septa and dimensions of 7.1 to 19.9 (average 14.5 )× 3.8 to 8.0 (average 5.6) μm (n = 100). Macroconidia were sickle-shaped, one to four septate, and 20.1 to 40.8 (average 26.5) × 4.8 to 8.6 (average 6.5) μm (n = 100). Chlamydospores were spherical, single, in pairs or chains, and 5.6 to 9.8 (average 6.8) µm in diameter (n = 100). Based on the above characteristics, the pathogens were identified as Fusarium sp. (Leslie and Summerell 2006). Genomic DNA was extracted from mycelia of two representative isolates Fs1 and Fs3. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS), translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF-1α) and RNA polymerase II second largest subunit (RPB2) sequences were PCR amplified using primer pairs of ITS1/ITS4, EF1/EF2, and RPB2-5f2/RPB2-7cr, RPB2-7cf/RPB2-11ar (O'Donnell et al., 2022), respectively. BLAST analysis showed that the ITS, TEF-1α and RPB2 sequences of isolates Fs1(GenBank accession nos. OK001765, OQ921726 and OQ928396) and Fs3 (GenBank accession nos. OK001771, OQ921727 and OQ928397) showed 99%-100% identity with multiple GenBank sequences of Fusarium falciforme (KY617066, MN064683, KF255514, OQ933361, KY556711 and ON331935). A phylogenetic tree based on concatenated sequences of ITS, TEF-1α and RPB2 using maximum-likelihood analysis revealed that both isolates Fs1 and Fs3 were in the same clade with F. falciforme strains. Based on the morphological and molecular characteristics, the isolates were identified as members of F. falciforme. For pathogenicity testing, conidial suspensions (1×108 spores /mL) of isolates Fs1 and Fs3 were poured onto the roots of healthy pomegranate that had been planted in pots two months previously. Ten plants were inoculated for each isolate. Control plants were drenched with sterile water. After 3 months, inoculated plants developed leaf yellowing and wilting accompanied by root browning and rotting, much like symptoms observed in field plants. The same fungi re-isolated from the experimental plants were confirmed to be F. falciforme by morphology and sequence analysis. This is the first report of F. falciforme causing root rot on pomegranate. F. falciforme is a ubiquitous soil-borne pathogen that causes root rot on multiple plants around the world (Xu F., et al. 2022; Qiu R., et al. 2023). The results of pathogen identification are essential precursors to development of effective control of the disease 
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700 1 |a Yang, Di  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Jiang, Shangbo  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Zhang, Jin  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Pan, Lian Fu  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Huang, Siliang  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Ye, Yunfeng  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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