First report of Diaporthe eres causing leaf spot on Rhododendron latoucheae Franch. in China

Rhododendron latoucheae Franch. is an evergreen shrub with charming fragrance and large and abundant flowers that make it highly attractive as an ornamental species. The species is distribution in southwest China covers several different habitats and environments (Zhang, et al. 2022). From May to Ju...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2024) vom: 19. Jan.
1. Verfasser: Wu, Xueping (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Li, Huie, Shi, Suhuan, Tang, Xianying, Li, Xiaoli, Liu, Lingling, Li, Zhu, Ding, Haixia
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Diaporthe eres Leaf spot Rhododendron latoucheae Franch.
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520 |a Rhododendron latoucheae Franch. is an evergreen shrub with charming fragrance and large and abundant flowers that make it highly attractive as an ornamental species. The species is distribution in southwest China covers several different habitats and environments (Zhang, et al. 2022). From May to July in 2023, symptoms of leaf spot were observed on R. latoucheae over a wide portion of the Baili Azalea Forest Area (27°10' to 27°20'N, 105°04' to 106°04'E), Guizhou Province, China. About 500 plants were surveyed, and the incidence of leaf spot on R. latoucheae leaves was 12%, significantly reducing their ornamental and economic value. The affected leaves had irregular, grey white lesions with a clear blackish brown boundary and faint black conidiomata in a brown center. To isolate the pathogen, 15 symptomatic leaves were collected from 10 plants. A few black dots were picked from the lesions with a sterilized needle, plated on water agar, and incubated at 25°C for 24 h to observe spore germination (Choi et al. 1999). Then the germinated spores were transferred onto PDA for further purification and morphological observation. Three single-spore isolates (GULJ1-L7, GULJ1-L8, and GULJ1-L9) identical in morphology were obtained. The isolate GULJ 1-L7 was used for further study. Colonies on PDA irregular grew white felty aerial mycelium, becoming white felted aerial mycelium in the centre and grey-brown mycelium at the marginal area on the upper surface, while the lower surface presents alternating white, tan and taupe. Colony with conidiomata irregularly distributed over agar surface. In the representative isolate, darkly pigmented pycnidia (flask-shaped) were produced over the colony surface on PDA after about 30 days, and oozed milky or yellowish mucilaginous drops. The fungus produced two types of conidia, α and β. Regular α conidia were 5.15-10.29 × 1.54-3.33 μm (n = 50), hyaline, elongated, biguttulate and non-septate. Beta conidia were 20.34-31.91 × 1.01-1.90 μm (n = 50), aseptate, hyaline, smooth, spindle shaped, slightly curved to bent. The morphological features were consistent with the description of Diaporthe eres (Pereira, et al. 2022). The pathogen was confirmed to be D. eres by amplification and sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), the partial β-tubulin (TUB), the partial translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF) genes and the calmodulin (CAL) using primers ITS1/ITS4, Bt-2a/Bt-2b, EF1-728F/EF1-986R, and CAL-228F/CAL-737R, respectively (Tao et al. 2020). Sequences from PCR amplification were deposited in GenBank with accession numbers OR740563 (ITS), OR754301 (TUB), OR754298 (TEF), and OR754295 (CAL) respectively. BLAST searches of the sequences revealed 99.07% (533/538 nt), 100% (490/490 nt), 99.69% (317/318 nt) and 98.95% (376/380 nt) homology with those of D. eres AR5193T from GenBank (KJ210529.1, KJ420799.1, KJ210550.1 and KJ434999.1), respectively. Phylogenetic analysis (MEGA 7.0) using the maximum-likelihood method placed the isolate GULJ1-L7 in a well-supported cluster with D. eres CBS 138694T. The pathogen was thus identified as D. eres based on the morphological characterization and molecular analyses (Feng, et al. 2013; Tao, et al. 2020). The pathogenicity of GULJ1-L7 was tested through a pot assay. Due to the difficulty of artificial planting wild R. latoucheae, we conducted a pot essay to detect the pathogenicity of GULJ1-L7 using a closely related Rhododendron delavayi Franch. Ten healthy R. delavayi plants were scratched with a sterilized needle (0.45 mm in diameter) on three leaves per plant. Plants were inoculated by spraying α and β spore mixture suspension (106 spores ml-1) of GULJ1-L7 onto leaves until runoff, and the control leaves were sprayed with sterile water. The plants were maintained at 25°C and 75% relative humidity in a growth chamber. The pathogenicity test was repeated three times. After 14 days, the treated leaves developed brown lesions similar to those in the field, whereas the control had no symptoms. The same fungus was reisolated from the infected leaves and identified based on a morphological characterization and molecular analyses. These results fulfilled Koch's postulates. To our knowledge, this is the first report of leaf spot on R. latoucheae caused by D. eres in China. The fungal pathogen identification will provide valuable information for prevention and management of leaf spot disease associated with R. latoucheae 
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700 1 |a Li, Xiaoli  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Liu, Lingling  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Li, Zhu  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Ding, Haixia  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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