A New Leaf Blight Disease Caused by Alternaria jacinthicola on Banana in China

Wang, Bin; Zhang, Yongyan; Liu, Jiapeng; Sheng, Ou; Fan, Li; Qiu, Dongliang; Lü, Peitao; Deng, Guiming; Cheng, Chunzhen

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“…Banana is an important fruit and food crop in the world [13]. As a characteristic fruit, banana has a huge development prospect and has become an important agricultural pillar in the southern subtropical region of China [14]. However, in recent years, the banana industry has suffered greatly from the devastating Fusarium wilt disease.…”

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Influences of Serendipita indica and Dictyophorae echinovolvata on the Growth and Fusarium Wilt Disease Resistance of Banana

Cheng

Fan

Wang

et al. 2022

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Recently, many control methods have been tried and applied in the Fusarium wilt disease control of banana and have achieved definite progresses. In this study, by using ‘Zhongjiao No.3’ and ‘Zhongjiao No.4’ banana seedlings as materials, the effects of Serendipita indica and bamboo fungus (Dictyophorae echinovolvata) culture substrates on the growth and Fusarium wilt disease resistance of banana were investigated. Results showed that the plant height, leaf length, leaf width, root length and root thickness, aboveground part fresh weight, root fresh weight, and relative chlorophyll content and nitrogen content in leaves of banana seedlings colonized with S. indica were all greater than those of non-colonized controls, while these parameters of banana seedlings grown in nutrient soil containing D. echinovolvata culture substrates were significantly suppressed. Both S. indica non-colonized and colonized seedlings cultivated in nutrient containing 1/4 D. echinovolvata culture substrates showed much milder symptoms compared with those cultivated in normal nutrient soil, indicating that the addition of bamboo fungus substrates to the soil can enhance the Fusarium wilt resistance of banana. The results obtained in this study can provide a basis for the application of S. indica and bamboo fungus in the prevention and control of banana Fusarium wilt disease.

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Influences of Serendipita indica and Dictyophorae echinovolvata on the Growth and Fusarium Wilt Disease Resistance of Banana

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Wang

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Occurrence of Leaf Spot on Narrow-Head Ragwort (Ligularia stenocephala) Caused by Alternaria cinerariae in Korea

Ryu,

Hong,

Hassan

et al. 2024

Plant Disease

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Narrow-head ragwort (Ligularia stenocephala (Maxim.) Matsum. & Koidz.) has been used for medicinal purposes and a leafy vegetable in South Korea (Choi et al., 2007; Debnath et al., 2017). In May 2022, brown spots and blight were observed on the leaves in a farmer's field in Namwon (35°26'58.9"N, 127°28'55.9"E), Korea. About 80% of the plants in a 3000 m2 cultivation area were infected. To isolate the causal agent, small pieces (1 mm2) surface-sterilized (1% NaOCl for 1 min) symptomatic leaf tissues were put onto a water agar (WA) plate and incubated in the dark at 25℃. After five days of incubation, two isolates (FD00021, FD00022) were obtained from diseased leaves using a single spore isolation technique. Morphological characteristics were examined after seven days of incubation at 25℃ in the dark. Colonies were 51.6 to 65.3 mm in diameter, gray-green in the center, and ivory at the edge. Conidiophores were straight or curved and 10 – 34 × 4 – 5 μm. Conidia were solitary or two to four in a chain, long ellipsoid to obclavate, one to thirteen transverse septa, 52 – 169 ×14 – 34 μm, blunt-tapered beak variable in size 4 – 56 × 3 – 10 μm (n=75). The morphological and cultural characteristics of the isolates were consistent with that of Alternaria cinerariae (Nishikawa and Nakashima, 2015; Simmons, 2007). For molecular identification, genomic DNA was extracted from 5-day-old cultures using the Maxwell® RSC PureFood GMO and Authentication Kit (Promega). Five gene regions, including rDNA ITS, GPD, Alt a, RPB2, and EF1-α were amplified and sequenced using ITS1/ITS4, gpd1/gpd2, Alt-a1-for/ Alt-a1-rev, RPB2-5F2/RPB2-7cR, and EF1-728F/EF1-986R primer sets respectively (Wang et al., 2022; Garibaldi et al., 2022). The resulting sequences were deposited in GenBank with accession no. OP785152, OP785153 and OP832000 to OP832007). The concatenated genes (rDNA ITS, GPD, Alt a, RPB2, and EF1-α) sequence identity of the FD00021 and FD00022 against the reference strain A. cinerariae CBS 116495 is 99.92% (2572/2574) and 99.84% (2570/2574), respectively. Maximum Likelihood tree was inferred based on the concatenated sequences of the five gene regions using the Kimura 2-parameter model with 1,000 bootstrap replications. The phylogenetic tree showed that the present strains and A. cinerariae CBS 116495 fell into the same clade with high bootstrap support (100%). Based on morphological characteristics and molecular analysis, the isolates were identified as A. cinerariae. To confirm their pathogenicity, drops (70 μl) of conidial suspension (1×104 spores/ml) were applied on intact healthy leaves (3 leaves/plant) of plants (3 plants/isolate) that had been cultivated for one month after transplantation as seedlings. Controls were treated with sterile distilled water. The treated plants were covered with plastic boxes to maintain humidity around 90% and were maintained in an incubator at 25℃ in a 12-hour light-dark cycle. Symptoms appeared only on inoculated leaves after four days of inoculation, while controls remained asymptomatic. The A. cinerariae isolates were re-isolated from infected tissue of the inoculated leaves, thus fulfilling Koch's postulates. Alternaria cinerariae is an important plant pathogen that can cause leaf spot and blight on a variety of host plants including Cineraria spp. and Tussilago farfara (He et al. 2020). This is the first report on leaf spot on Narrow-head ragwort caused by A. cinerariae in the world. Leaf spot disease caused by Alternaria cinerariae is a significant threat to narrow-head ragwort agriculture in South Korea. Therefore, its control strategies are necessary for increasing productivity.

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Characterization of Fungal Species Isolated from Cankered Apple Barks Demonstrates the Alternaria alternata Causing Apple Canker Disease

Li,

Zhang

et al. 2024

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Apple canker disease, also named as apple Valsa canker, is one of the most destructive diseases for apples (Malus domestica Borkh.). Cytospora/Valsa spp. are the dominant causal agent of this disease, but many studies have revealed that fungi from some other genus can also cause typical apple canker symptoms. In this study, we performed fungal pathogen isolation from cankered ‘Fuji’ apple barks. Six representative morphologically different fungi (Strain 1–6) were further subjected to ITS sequencing and evolutionary analysis. Molecular identification results revealed that Strains 1–6 are Cytospora mali, Fusarium cf. solani, Alternaria alternata, C. mali, Diplodia seriata and F. proliferatum, respectively. All these fungi have been reported to be causal agents of apple diseases. By inoculating fungal plugs onto trunks of ‘Fuji’ apple trees, the pathogenicity of the six fungi were accessed. Only the inoculations of the two C. mali strains (Strain 1 and Strain 4) and the A. alternata strain (Strain 3) resulted in typical apple canker symptoms in trunks. It is worth noting that Strain 1 caused much more severe canker symptoms and higher pathogenicity incidence than the other two fungi. A. alternata has been identified as a pathogen causing diseases on apple fruits and leaves. By further assessing its pathogenicity on apple fruits and leaves, we verified that it can also cause typical fruit rot and leaf spot symptoms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on apple canker disease caused by A. alternata in China. Our present study can provide a theoretical foundation for the prevention and control of apple canker disease.

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A New Leaf Blight Disease Caused by Alternaria jacinthicola on Banana in China

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Influences of Serendipita indica and Dictyophorae echinovolvata on the Growth and Fusarium Wilt Disease Resistance of Banana

Influences of Serendipita indica and Dictyophorae echinovolvata on the Growth and Fusarium Wilt Disease Resistance of Banana

Occurrence of Leaf Spot on Narrow-Head Ragwort (Ligularia stenocephala) Caused by Alternaria cinerariae in Korea

Characterization of Fungal Species Isolated from Cankered Apple Barks Demonstrates the Alternaria alternata Causing Apple Canker Disease

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