First report of Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae causing soft rot of plum in China

Plum (Prunus salicina) is one of the most important fruit tree species worldwide (Valderrama-Soto et al. 2021). In June 2023, the postharvest soft rot symptoms were observed on plum fruits in several fruit markets of Guiyang city, Guizhou province, China. The disease incidence in these markets range...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2024) vom: 11. Jan.
1. Verfasser: Wang, Yu-Ru (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Song, Qian-Jun, Shang, Lei, Wang, Xing-Chang, Muhae-Ud-Din, Ghulam, Wang, Yong, Chen, Hong
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article China First report Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae Microscopy Molecular detection Morphology Soft Rot of Plum
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520 |a Plum (Prunus salicina) is one of the most important fruit tree species worldwide (Valderrama-Soto et al. 2021). In June 2023, the postharvest soft rot symptoms were observed on plum fruits in several fruit markets of Guiyang city, Guizhou province, China. The disease incidence in these markets ranged from 20 to 25% with 70% disease severity. Plum fruits showed rotting, which was characterized by water soaked fruit tissue, softening and presence of whitish mycelia four days post inoculation. In severe conditions, whole fruits become rotted and were covered with white fungal mycelia. Small sections (5 × 3 mm) from 6 diseased plum fruits were surface sterilized by using 75% ethanol for 30 s followed by 0.1% mercuric chloride solution for 5 min, rinsed three times with ddH2O, and then transferred onto potato dextrose agar (PDA) and incubated at 25 ± 2°C for three days. Three pure cultures (GUCC23-0001 to GUCC23-0003) were obtained by transferring a single hyphal tip to new PDA plates. Colonies of these isolates were grayish-white initially, gradually turning to whitish brown with fluffy aerial mycelia and uneven edges and finally turned to a dark gray colony after five days of inoculation. The pseudoparaphyses were hyaline, cylindrical, aseptate, and rounded at apex. Conidia were ellipsoidal, hyaline, unicellular, and 24.2 to 28.6 × 12.3 to 15.5 µm in size (n = 30) (Fig. S1), which were similar to the morphology of Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae (Alves et al. 2008). Furthermore, fungal DNA was extracted from fresh mycelia of PDA after seven days by using fungus genomic DNA extraction kit (Biomiga, USA). Partial DNA sequences from four loci including internal transcribed spacer (ITS), translation elongation factor 1-alpha (tef1), beta-tubulin (tub2), and polymerase II second largest subunit (rpb2) were amplified with ITS1 and ITS4 (White et al. 1990), EF1-688F and EF1-1251R (Alves et al. 2008), Bt2a and Bt2b (Glass and Donaldson 1995), and RPB2-LasF and RPB2-LasR, respectively (Cruywagen et al. 2017). GenBank accession numbers are OR361680, OR361681, OR361682 for ITS, OR423394, OR423395, OR423396 for tef1, OR423397, OR423398, OR423399 for tub2, and OR423391, OR423392, OR423393 for rpb2, and gene sequencing showed 99.6 to 100% identity with ex-type strain of L. pseudotheobromae (CBS 116459). Phylogenetic analysis also placed our isolates in a highly supported clade with the reference isolate of L. pseudotheobromae (Fig. S2). Another experiment was designed to confirm the pathogenicity test for additional confirmation. Five mm mycelial plugs of L. pseudotheobromae from a three day old culture on PDA were placed on five surface-sterilized and non-wounded plum fruits for 12 hours and incubated at 25°C ± 2°C for four days. Sterilized fungus free PDA plugs were used as a negative control. Mycelial plugs were removed after 12 hours following which whole fruits were incubated in plastic boxes at 25°C ± 2°C. The experiment was repeated twice. The pathogenicity was evaluated under control conditions in laboratory (relative humidity, 70 ± 5% and temperature 25 ± 5˚C). Plum fruits showed rotting, which was characterized by water soaked fruit tissue, softening and presence of whitish mycelia four days post inoculation. These symptoms and signs were similar to the initially observed symptoms on plums in the markets. No disease symptoms were observed on the control fruits. The re-isolated fungus obtained from inoculated plum fruits was very similar to those isolated from diseased samples in morphology, fulfilling Koch's postulates. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of L. pseudotheobromae causing postharvest fruit rot of plum in China. In 2022, the total planting area of plum was 1946.5 thousand hectares, which produces approximately 6626300 tons of plum (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2022). Based on the disease incidence and severity reported in the current study, soft rot of plum may be responsible for nearly 35% of yield losses under severe. Therefore, our study laid a theoretical foundation for the prevention and control of this post-harvest disease of plum 
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