Identification of Fusarium sacchari Causing Foliar Blight on Begonia semperflorens in China

Begonia semperflorens Link et Otto (Begoniaceae) is a flowering, ornamental plant widely cultivated in China. In April of 2020, a foliar blight disease on B. semperflorens was observed in plant nurseries (∼0.2 ha), with ~ 20% disease incidence (n = 150) in Nanning, Guangxi Province, China. Initial s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2023) vom: 27. Juni
1. Verfasser: Lin, Siyu (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Liu, Ze, Guo, Jingyi, Zhu, Liumei, Xu, Wantong, Wu, Weiyi, Liao, Hongze, Gao, Qi, Zhou, Hao
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Causal Agent Crop Type Fungi Fusarium sacchari Ornamentals herbaceous/flowering plants
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520 |a Begonia semperflorens Link et Otto (Begoniaceae) is a flowering, ornamental plant widely cultivated in China. In April of 2020, a foliar blight disease on B. semperflorens was observed in plant nurseries (∼0.2 ha), with ~ 20% disease incidence (n = 150) in Nanning, Guangxi Province, China. Initial symptoms included irregular to circular, grayish white spots surrounded by a dark brown halo, mainly scattered on the edges the leaves. In severe infections, the spots frequently coalesced to form large, blighted areas, followed by defoliation. To isolate the pathogen, three representative plants exhibiting symptoms were collected from the nurseries. Leaf tissues (5 × 5 mm) were cut from the margin of necrotic lesions (n = 18), surface disinfected in 1% NaOCl for 2 min, then rinsed three times in sterile H2O. Then the tissues were plated on potato dextrose agar (PDA), and incubated at 28°C (12 h photoperiod) for 3 days. Hyphal tips from recently germinated spores were transferred to PDA to purify fungal isolates. A total of 11 isolates (85% isolation frequency) with similar morphological characteristics were obtained. Colonies on PDA plates were villose, had a dense growth of white aerial mycelia and appeared pale but becoming violet with age. On Spezieller Nährstoffarmer Agar (SNA), the macroconidia were slender, slight falcate, two to three septate, and 23.5 to 48.8 × 2.8 to 4.8 μm (n = 60), and the microconidia were abundant and formed in false heads on monophialides or polyphialides, slim, oval, zero to one septate, and 7.8 to 22.4 × 2.4 to 4.0 μm (n = 60). For molecular identification, the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of rDNA, and partial translation elongation factor-1 alpha (TEF-1α), and RNA polymerase second largest subunit (RPB2) genes of the representative isolate HT-2B were amplified and sequenced using primer pairs ITS1/ITS4 (White et al. 1990), EF-1/EF-2 (O'Donnell et al. 1998), and 5f2/11ar (Liu et al. 1999, Reeb et al. 2004), respectively. The obtained sequences were deposited in NCBI GenBank under the accession numbers OQ048268 (TIS), OP994260 (TEF-1α), OP994262 (RPB2) and showed 99.4%, 99.8%, and 99.4% similarity with the corresponding sequences (X94168,AF160278,and JX171580, respectively) of Fusarium sacchari from type material. In addition, a phylogenetic analysis showed that HT-2B was grouped with F. sacchari. Therefore, based on morphological (Leslie et al. 2005) and molecular characteristics, the isolates were identified as F. sacchari. To test pathogenicity, three healthy leaves on each of three B. semperflorens plants were stab-wounded with a sterile syringe and inoculated with a 10-μl droplet of a conidial suspension (106 spores/ml) of the isolate HT-2B. As a control, another three leaves were wound inoculated with sterilized dH2O. All plants were enclosed in transparent plastic bags and incubated in a greenhouse at 28°C (12 h photoperiod, ~ 80% relative humidity). Six days post-inoculation, symptoms appeared on the inoculated leaves. No symptoms were detected on control plants. Experiments were replicated three times with similar results. To fulfill Koch's postulates, the F. sacchari isolates were consistently re-isolated from symptomatic tissue and confirmed by morphology and sequencing, whereas no fungus was isolated from the control plants. To our knowledge, this is the first report of F. sacchari causing foliar blight on B. semperflorens in China. This result will help develop management strategies for this disease 
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700 1 |a Liao, Hongze  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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700 1 |a Zhou, Hao  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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