First Report of Fusarium proliferatum Causing Basal Rot and Dry Rot on Onion Bulbs (Allium cepa) in Spain

Spain is the second largest onion-producing country in Europe with 1,465,430 tons and an export value of 584 million € in 2021 (MAPA 2022). In summer 2022 rot bulb symptoms were observed in five commercial fields and during the storage of cultivars 'Orlenda', 'Veleta', 'Mall...

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Publié dans:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2024) vom: 26. Jan.
Auteur principal: Gálvez, Laura (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Albonis, Simón, López, Rocío, Soler, María, Palmero, Daniel
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2024
Accès à la collection:Plant disease
Sujets:Journal Article Etiology Fusarium basal rot Fusarium dry rot Subject Areas pathogenicity
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520 |a Spain is the second largest onion-producing country in Europe with 1,465,430 tons and an export value of 584 million € in 2021 (MAPA 2022). In summer 2022 rot bulb symptoms were observed in five commercial fields and during the storage of cultivars 'Orlenda', 'Veleta', 'Mallory', 'Citation' and 'Pantano' from La Roda in Albacete (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain). Approximately 20% of sampled bulbs (113 bulbs analyzed) were affected with dry scales showing brown to dark brown rot on the top and basal plate of the onion bulbs. Occasionally, white to light pink fungal mycelium was observed between rotten scales and the plate basal. Sections of dry scales (5-10 mm) of the apical and basal plate were cut and placed on potato dextrose agar (PDA) and Komada medium (Komada 1975). From 5-day-old cultures typical white to light pink mycelium with microconidia in chains formed on polyphialides and macroconidia resembling Fusarium proliferatum (Nelson et al. 1983). To confirm the pathogen identity, partial translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF1) and RNA polymerase II subunit 2 (RPB2) genes were amplified and sequenced using primers reported in O´Donnell et al. (1998) and Samuels et al. (2002) for TEF1 and Liu et al. (1999) for RPB2. In BLAST analyses, the sequences showed 100% identity to the corresponding region of F. proliferatum (KP964908 and JF740801). Sequences were submitted to GenBank, and registered accession numbers are OR061014-16 for TEF1 and OR061017-19 for RPB2. Pathogenicity tests were conducted by inoculating healthy onion bulbs (five replicates per treatment) on the apical and basal plate by placing a 7-day old mycelial plug (10 mm diameter) from PDA cultures. Two onion cultivars ('Pandero' by Nunhems USA and 'Mallory' by Bejo The Netherlands) were inoculated separately with three isolates (PRO1, PRO9, PRO12). Control bulbs were inoculated with sterile PDA. The experiment was carried out twice. All bulbs were placed in a moist chamber and incubated at 25°C in the dark. After 15 days, bulbs inoculated with mycelial plugs showed similar symptoms to those of the original diseased bulbs. Browning dry rot was observed on the apical and basal plate of bulbs. When bulbs were cut longitudinally inner progressing rot was observed. Control bulbs remained symptomless. In both experiments, F. proliferatum was successfully re-isolated and morphologically confirmed from symptomatic bulbs to fulfill Koch's postulates. These results confirmed that isolates PRO1, PRO9 and PRO12 were the pathogen causing basal and dry rot on onion bulbs. This pathogen has recently been identified in China on Allium cepa L. var. agrogatum (Liu et al. 2022) and Idaho on onion (Beck et al. 2020) and could become a serious threat to onion production in Spain, reducing the quality and yield of onion 
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