First report of Colletotrichum plurivorum and Colletotrichum truncatum causing anthracnose on melon plants in Brazil

Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is an economically important crop in Brazil, with an annual production of 699.281 tons (FAO 2024). Fungal diseases are one of the biggest problems in melon production, and melon growers in northeastern Brazil have reported over 80% of plants showing anthracnose symptoms in th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2024) vom: 15. Juli
1. Verfasser: Assunção, Daniela Almeida de (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Evangelista, Luiz Fernando Bezerra, Costa, Talison Eugênio, Silva, Jarlan Lucas Santos, Bento, Elisandra Alves, Neto, Jorge Alves Silva, da Silva, Washington Luis, Ambrosio, Márcia Michelle Queiroz, Holanda, Ioná Santos Araújo
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Causal Agent Cucumis melo Fungi Leaf spot
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520 |a Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is an economically important crop in Brazil, with an annual production of 699.281 tons (FAO 2024). Fungal diseases are one of the biggest problems in melon production, and melon growers in northeastern Brazil have reported over 80% of plants showing anthracnose symptoms in the fields during rainy seasons. Plants were wilted, displaying brown necrotic lesions and water-soaked spots with yellowish edges on the leaves and vines. Melon fruits displayed necrotic lesions on the outside. From June 2022 to June 2023, melon leaves (varieties Yellow, Galia, and Cantaloupe) from anthracnose-symptomatic plants were collected in four melon farms located in the municipalities of Afonso Bezerra, Mossoró, Tibau, and Upanema in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Small fragments of symptomatic leaves were disinfected in 70% ethanol (30 sec) and 2.5 % sodium hypochlorite (1 min), rinsed in sterile distilled water, and plated on PDA Petri dishes with tetracycline (0.05g/liter). Plates were maintained in a bio-oxygen demand incubator (BOD) for 3 days at 28 ± 2 °C, under a 12 hr photoperiod. Eleven representative fungal colonies resembling Colletotrichum spp. were selected and monosporically grown on PDA for seven days for morphology, pathogenicity, and molecular analyses.ight colonies showed pinkish-dark brown with acervuli in the center and cottony mycelium, and showing black edges in some isolates, resembling C. plurivorum (Zhang et al. 2023). Conidia from those colonies were hyaline, cylindrical with obtuse ends, and 17.76 x 7.06 μm, n= 50. Three colonies developed pinkish-gray mycelia with numerous black microsclerotia, and the conidia were hyaline, falcate, and 27.38 x 4.10 μm, n= 50, resembling C. truncatum (Yu et al. 2023). The total DNA of the eleven isolates was extracted, and the internal transcribed space (ITS), glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), actin (ACT), β-tubulin (TUB), and chitin synthase 1 (CHS-1) regions were partially amplified by PCR. Amplicons were sequenced and deposited to Genbank (Table eXtra1). A phylogenetic tree was built with the Maximum likelihood method with the concatenated sequences of the five partial gene sequences on Software MEGA (Version 11.0.10) (Tamura et al. 2021). The isolates CML5, CML8, CML9, CML10, CML11, CML14, CML15, and CML25 were grouped with Colletotrichum plurivorum CBS 125474 (orchidearum complex), and the isolates CML26, CML27 and CML28 with Colletotrichum truncatum CBS 15:35 (truncatum complex) with 87 % e 97 % of Bootstrap support, respectively. C. plurivorum was detected in four farms visited (we selected two representative isolates per farm), while C. truncatum isolates were all from the farm in Afonso Bezerra municipality. A pathogenicity test was performed following the method of Baishuan et al. (2023), micro-injuries were made in leaves of melon seedlings 'Goldex Yellow' and inoculated with a spore suspension of colonies with seven days of growth (106 spore/mL) of each isolate and sprayed to the point of dripping. Sterile water was used as mock. After nine days, anthracnose symptoms similar to those observed in the field were seen in all inoculated leaves, while no symptom was observed in the leaves of the mock plants. The pathogens were reisolated and their identification was confirmed by morphology and sequencing. Five seedlings were inoculated per isolate and mock, the assay was repeated, and the same results were observed. The species C. plurivorum has already been reported to cause disease in Cucumbers in Brazil (Silva et al. 2023) and C. plurivorum and C. truncatum in Citrullus lanatus in China (Guo et al. 2022). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of C. plurivorum and C. truncatum causing anthracnose in melon plants in Brazil 
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700 1 |a Evangelista, Luiz Fernando Bezerra  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Costa, Talison Eugênio  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Silva, Jarlan Lucas Santos  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Bento, Elisandra Alves  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Neto, Jorge Alves Silva  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a da Silva, Washington Luis  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Ambrosio, Márcia Michelle Queiroz  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Holanda, Ioná Santos Araújo  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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