First Report of Leaf Black Spot Caused by Alternaria alternata on American Persimmons in China

American persimmons (Diospyros virginiana L.) are native to the United States. After being introduced into China, they were used as a rootstock for expanding persimmon varieties and planted in local areas due to their strong cold resistance and diverse leaf colors. In 2022, 12 plants had similar sym...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2023) vom: 24. Juli
1. Verfasser: Fan, Zhirui (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Fan, Hanyue, Ding, Yu, Lv, Zhongyi, Shen, Xiaoxia, Yang, Yong, Guan, Changfei
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Alternaria alternata American persimmon morphology phylogeny
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520 |a American persimmons (Diospyros virginiana L.) are native to the United States. After being introduced into China, they were used as a rootstock for expanding persimmon varieties and planted in local areas due to their strong cold resistance and diverse leaf colors. In 2022, 12 plants had similar symptoms to black spot disease on the leaves of 18 American persimmons introduced in the National Field Genebank for Persimmon, Yangling, Shaanxi, China (34°17'42.80″ N, 108°04'08.21″ E). Among them, severity was highest in the 'VM10' variety (almost 100%), 'VM10' is the main cultivar in Shaanxi and Henan regions of China, and the incidence of disease in the two regions ranged between 30 and 60% in 2022. Early symptoms were irregular black-brown spots, which gradually combined into large irregular lesions with a dark brown border. The leaves began to curl, crack, scorch, and abscissed. When relative humidity was high, leaves also had signs of black sporulation and became chlorotic. To isolate the causal agent, 10 symptomatic leaves were collected from 5 diseased plants in the National Field Genebank for Persimmon. The infected leaves were cut into 20 small pieces of 5 × 5 mm from the junction of the diseased and healthy tissues and surface disinfected in 75% alcohol for 15 sec, washed with sterile water and 2% NaClO for 90 sec, rinsed three times with sterile water, dried with sterile absorbent paper, and plated on potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium. After 3 days, 12 strains of fungi were isolated from the tissue by transferring the hyphal tips of the mycelium. Among them, 10 strains had similar morphological characteristics. Fungal colonies developed on the PDA medium were initially white, then gradually changed to gray-brown with neat edges and flocculent hyphae. Conidia (n=50) light brown or medium brown, obovate or pear-shaped, and 8.27 to 15.31×17.51 to 24.31 µm, with 1 to 4 transverse septa and 0 to 2 longitudinal septa. The isolates were morphologically similar to Alternaria alternata (Simmons et al. 2007). For molecular identification, the E.Z.N.A.® Fungal DNA kit (Omega Bio-Tek) was used to extract genomic DNA from 7-day-old mycelium grown on PDA medium. The internal transcribed spacers (ITS) region, translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF1-α), Alternaria major allergen (Alt a1) gene, and partial RNA polymerase second largest subunit (RPB2) were amplified using ITS1/4 (Glass et al. 1995), EF1-728F/EF1-968R (Carbone and Kohn 1999), and Alt-4for /Alt-4rev (Hong et al., 2005) and RPB2-5F/RPB2-7CR (Liu et al. 1999) respectively. The sequences of a representative isolate MZS1 were deposited in GeneBank with accession numbers OP198643 for ITS, OP286949 for Tef1-α, OP286948 for Alt a1, and OP951084 for RPB2, and were 100% identical to strains of A. alternata (MN615420 for ITS, MN615423 for EF1-α, MW848792 for Alt a1 and MN615422 for RPB2). A maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree was constructed based on the concatenated sequences of ITS, TEF1-α, Alt a1, and RPB2gene, which clustered with the A. alternata strains YZU191238 with high bootstrap support (99%). To fulfill Koch's postulates, three-month-old American persimmon 'VM10' seedlings were tested for pathogenicity. Three seedlings were sprayed with 1 × 106 spores/ml suspension in a spray pot, and the three seedlings were treated with sterilized water as a noninoculated control. All seedlings were cultured in a 25°C incubator. The experiment was performed three times under the same conditions. One week after inoculation, typical symptoms appeared on the leaves, which were similar to those observed on the leaves of the original infected persimmon trees. In the control treatment, the leaves did not show symptoms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of A. alternata causing American persimmon black spots disease in China. This report will contribute to the identification of disease symptoms in the field and provide a basis for the occurrence, distribution, and control of A. alternata on American persimmon leaves 
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