First report of basal rot of yellow dragon fruit (Selenicereus megalanthus) caused by Fusarium oxysporum in Peru

Cultivation of yellow dragon fruit (Selenicereus megalanthus) in Peru has recently expanded (Verona-Ruiz et al. 2020). In August 2021, approximately 170 of 1,110 dragon fruit cuttings (15.3%) in the university's nursery (6°26'10'' S; 77°31'25'' W) showed basal rot...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2024) vom: 15. Aug.
1. Verfasser: Huamán-Pilco, Angel Fernando (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Arce-Inga, Marielita, Huamán-Pilco, Jorge, Aguilar-Rafael, Vilma, Oliva-Cruz, Segundo Manuel, Hernández-Diaz, Elgar, Fernández, Ysadora, Torres-Cruz, Terry Jarianna, Díaz-Valderrama, Jorge Ronny
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Causal Agent Crop Type Etiology Fungi Subject Areas Tropical plants
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520 |a Cultivation of yellow dragon fruit (Selenicereus megalanthus) in Peru has recently expanded (Verona-Ruiz et al. 2020). In August 2021, approximately 170 of 1,110 dragon fruit cuttings (15.3%) in the university's nursery (6°26'10'' S; 77°31'25'' W) showed basal rot symptoms. Initial symptoms included small brown spots on the base of stems, expanding towards the top that became soft and watery. All symptomatic plants eventually died, i.e., a severity of 100%. The disease was more prevalent on cuttings during the rooting phase than on well-established cuttings. We collected five symptomatic cuttings from throughout the nursery. Four sections of 1 × 1 cm2 of tissue adjacent to the diseased area were excised from each cutting, immersed for 1 min in 2% NaClO, rinsed twice with sterile distilled water, placed on potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium (four sections per Petri plate, five plates), and incubated at 25°C for 7 days. Morphologically similar mycelia grew from all sections, and five monosporic isolates were obtained, one per plate. Colonies grew fast, reaching 60 to 64 mm in 7 days, and produced violet-white cottony aerial mycelia with orange sporodochia on PDA, and abundant macro- and microconidia on synthetic nutrient-poor agar. Macroconidia were straight to slightly curved, typically with 2 to 3 septa, 16.6 to 23.3 × 1.7 to 3.7 µm (n = 30); microconidia were oval or kidney-shaped, and commonly hyaline, 6.7 to 16.4 × 2.5 to 4.7 µm (n = 40). Genomic DNA was extracted from isolate AFHP-100, then the ITS region and the TEF1 and RPB2 partial genes were amplified and sequenced (Accession numbers PP977433, OR437358, PP537149) following Gardes and Bruns (1993) and O'Donnell et al. (1998). We conducted a BLASTn search of ITS sequence against the NCBI "nr" database and local 'megablast' searches of TEF1 and RPB2 sequences against FUSARIUM-ID v.3.0 (Torres-Cruz et al. 2022). We found 100%, 98.19 to 99.84%, and 98.81 to 99.76% identities in ITS, TEF1, and RPB2 sequences, respectively, to the ex-epitype and other reference strains of Fusarium oxysporum (CBS 144134, NRRL26406, among others). A maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis with a TEF1-RPB2 concatenated dataset with FUSARIUM-ID sequences also showed isolate AFHP-100 was F. oxysporum. A pathogenicity test was carried out by inoculating wounded healthy roots of three cuttings with submersion in a 5 × 106 conidia/ml suspension for 25 min. Then, the inoculated plants were planted in sterile soil. One cutting with wounded roots submerged in sterile water served as a control. In parallel, sterile soil was inoculated with 20 mL of the conidial suspension, and another three healthy cuttings were planted. A cutting planted in noninoculated soil also served as a control. Basal rot symptoms developed in all inoculated plants after 25 days. After re-isolation, the same fungus, corroborated based on micromorphology and TEF1 sequence (PP335689), was recovered, fulfilling Koch's postulates. The isolate was deposited in the KUELAP Herbarium (voucher KUELAP-3214), located and administered by the National University Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza de Amazonas, in Chachapoyas, Peru. Fusarium oxysporum has been reported to cause basal stem rot in Bangladesh and Argentina (Mahmud et al. 2021; Wright et al. 2007), and stem blight in Malaysia (Mohd Hafifi et al. 2019) on dragon fruit. This is the first report of F. oxysporum causing basal rot in S. megalanthus in Peru. This fungus is among the most destructive plant pathogens, and the rapid expansion of the crop in Peru requires a comprehensive knowledge of the biotic factors influencing production. Therefore, this report is foundational to implementing proper control strategies 
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700 1 |a Huamán-Pilco, Jorge  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Aguilar-Rafael, Vilma  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Oliva-Cruz, Segundo Manuel  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Hernández-Diaz, Elgar  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Fernández, Ysadora  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Torres-Cruz, Terry Jarianna  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Díaz-Valderrama, Jorge Ronny  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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