scholarly journals First Report of Fusarium equiseti, Causing Fruit Rot Disease of Watermelon in Malaysia

Plant Disease ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ziaur Rahman ◽  
Khairulmazmi Ahmad ◽  
Yasmeen Siddiqui ◽  
Norsazilawati Saad ◽  
Tan Geok Hun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pure Culture ◽  
Gene Sequence ◽  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Fusarium Equiseti ◽  
Disease Symptoms ◽  
Fruit Decay ◽  
White Mycelium ◽  
Rot Disease ◽  
Fruit Surface

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) accounts for almost 13% of all tropical fresh fruit production in Malaysia. They are grown, mostly in Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Pahang, and Terengganu areas of Malaysia on 10,406 ha and yielding 172,722 Mt. In 2019, a new fruit rot disease was observed in two major production areas in Peninsular Malaysia. Disease symptoms included water-soaked brown lesions on the fruit surface in contact with the soil. The lesions enlarged gradually and ultimately covered the whole fruit with white mycelium leading to internal fruit decay. Disease surveys were conducted in December 2019 and November 2020 in fields at Kuantan, Pahang and Serdang, Selangor. Disease incidence was 10% in 2019 and 15% in 2020. Infected fruits were collected and washed under running tap water to wash off adhering soil and debris. Fruit tissue sections 1 to 2 cm in length were surface sanitized with 0.6% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) for 3 min. and washed twice with sterile distilled water. The disinfected air-dried tissues were then transferred onto potato dextrose agar (PDA) media and incubated at 25±2℃ for 3 days. Fungal colonies with whitish mycelium and pink pigment isolated using single spore culture. The pure cultures were placed onto carnation leaf agar (CLA), and the culture plates were incubated at 25±2℃ for 15 days for morphological characterization. On CLA, macroconidia were produced from monophialides on branched conidiophores in orange sporodochia. Macroconindia were thick-walled, strong dorsiventral curvature, 5 to 7 septate with a tapered whip-liked pointed apical cell and characteristic foot-shaped basal cell, 21.9 to 50.98 μm long and 2.3 to 3.60 μm wide. Typical verrucose thick chlamydospores with rough walls were profuse in chains or clumps, sub-globose or ellipsoidal. Based on morphological characteristics they were identified as Fusarium equiseti (Leslie and Summerell 2006). Molecular identification of both U4-1 and N9-1 pure culture isolates were carried out using two primer pair sets; internal transcribed spacer (ITS) ITS-1/ ITS-4 and translation elongation factor 1 alpha (TEF1-α) (EF-1/EF-2). A Blastn analysis of the ITS gene sequence of U4-1(MW362286) and N9-1 (MW362287) showed >99% similarity index to the reference gene sequence of F. equiseti isolate 19MSr-B3-4 (LC514690). The TEF1-α sequences of U4-1 (accession no. MW839563) and N9-1 (accession no. MW839564) showed 100% identity; with an e-value of zero, to the reference gene sequence of F. equiseti isolate URM: 7561 (accession no. LS398490). Each isolate also had a >99% identity with isolate NRRL 34070 (accession no. GQ505642) in Fusarium MLST database that belongs to the F. incarnatum-equiseti species complex (O’Donnell et al. 2015). Based on phylogenetic analysis of the aligned sequences (TEF1-α) by the maximum likelihood method, the U4-1 and N9-1 isolates were confirmed to be F. equiseti as was reported in Georgia, USA (Li and Ji 2015) and in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China (Li et al. 2018). Finally, the two pure culture isolates of U4-1 and N9-1 were used to fulfill Koch's postulates. Stab inoculations of five healthy watermelon fruits (cv. 345-F1 hybrid seedless round watermelon) were performed with a microconidial suspension of individual isolates (4x106 spores/mL). Five control fruits were stabbed with double distilled water. The inoculated fruits were incubated under 95% relative humidity at a temperature of 25±2℃ for 48 h followed by additional incubation inside an incubator at 25±2℃ for 8 days. Ten days post-inoculation, the control fruits showed no disease symptoms. However, inoculated fruits exhibited typical symptoms of fruit rot disease like water-soaked brown lesions, white mycelium on the fruit surface and internal fruit decay, which is similar to the farmer’s field infected fruits. The suspected pathogen was successfully re-isolated from the symptomatic portion of inoculated fruit and morphologically identified for verification. To our knowledge, this is the first report of F. equiseti causing fruit rot of watermelon in Malaysia. Malaysia exports watermelon year-round to many countries around the world. The outbreak of this new fruit rot disease could potentially pose a concern to watermelon cultivation in Malaysia.

scholarly journals First Report of Diaporthe hongkongensis Causing Fruit rot on Peach (Prunus persica) in China

Plant Disease ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhou Zhang ◽  
Zheng Bing Zhang ◽  
Yuan Tai Huang ◽  
FeiXiang Wang ◽  
Wei Hua Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prunus Persica ◽  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Post Inoculation ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Conidial Suspension ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer Region ◽  
First Report ◽  
Representative Isolate ◽  
Rot Disease

Peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] is an important deciduous fruit tree in the family Rosaceae and is a widely grown fruit in China (Verde et al., 2013). In July and August 2018, a fruit rot disease was observed in a few peach orchards in Zhuzhou city, the Hunan Province of China. Approximately 30% of the fruit in more than 400 trees was affected. Symptoms displayed were brown necrotic spots that expanded, coalesced, and lead to fruit being rotten. Symptomatic tissues excised from the margins of lesions were surface sterilized in 70% ethanol for 10 s, 0.1% HgCl2 for 2 min, rinsed with sterile distilled water three times, and incubated on potato dextrose agar (PDA) at 26°C in the dark. Fungal colonies with similar morphology developed, and eight fungal colonies were isolated for further identification. Colonies grown on PDA were grayish-white with white aerial mycelium. After an incubation period of approximately 3 weeks, pycnidia developed and produced α-conidia and β-conidia. The α-conidia were one-celled, hyaline, fusiform, and ranged in size from 6.0 to 8.4 × 2.1 to 3.1 μm, whereas the β-conidia were filiform, hamate, and 15.0 to 27.0 × 0.8 to 1.6 μm. For molecular identification, total genomic DNA was extracted from the mycelium of a representative isolate HT-1 and the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), β-tubulin gene (TUB), translation elongation factor 1-α gene (TEF1), calmodulin (CAL), and histone H3 gene (HIS) were amplified and sequenced (Meng et al. 2018). The ITS, TUB, TEF1, CAL and HIS sequences (GenBank accession nos. MT740484, MT749776, MT749778, MT749777, and MT749779, respectively) were obtained and in analysis by BLAST against sequences in NCBI GenBank, showed 99.37 to 100% identity with D. hongkongensis or D. lithocarpus (the synonym of D. hongkongensis) (Gao et al., 2016) (GenBank accession nos. MG832540.1 for ITS, LT601561.1 for TUB, KJ490551.1 for HIS, KY433566.1 for TEF1, and MK442962.1 for CAL). Pathogenicity tests were performed on peach fruits by inoculation of mycelial plugs and conidial suspensions. In one set, 0.5 mm diameter mycelial discs, which were obtained from an actively growing representative isolate of the fungus on PDA, were placed individually on the surface of each fruit. Sterile agar plugs were used as controls. In another set, each of the fruits was inoculated by application of 1 ml conidial suspension (105 conidia/ml) by a spray bottle. Control assays were carried out with sterile distilled water. All treatments were maintained in humid chambers at 26°C with a 12-h photoperiod. The inoculation tests were conducted twice, with each one having three fruits as replications. Six days post-inoculation, symptoms of fruit rot were observed on inoculated fruits, whereas no symptoms developed on fruits treated with agar plugs and sterile water. The fungus was re-isolated and identified to be D. hongkongensis by morphological and molecular methods, thus fulfilling Koch’s Postulates. This fungus has been reported to cause fruit rot on kiwifruit (Li et al. 2016) and is also known to cause peach tree dieback in China (Dissanayake et al. 2017). However, to our knowledge, this is the first report of D. hongkongensis causing peach fruit rot disease in China. The identification of the pathogen will provide important information for growers to manage this disease.

scholarly journals First Report of Postharvest Fruit Rot Disease of Hardy Kiwifruit Caused by Diaporthe eres in China

Plant Disease ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Liu ◽  
Xiaomei GUO ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Yue Cao ◽  
QUN SUN
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Initial Symptom ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Conidial Suspension ◽  
First Report ◽  
Rot Disease

Hardy kiwifruit (Actinidia arguta), as an economically important fruit crop growing in Northeast China with thin, hairless and smooth skin, is susceptible to postharvest decay. In September 2018, infected cultivar Kwilv fruits were obtained from a commercial farm in Liaoning province, northeastern China. The occurring incidence of the rot disease varied from 20% to 90% according to the fruit number in each box during a 7-day-long storage at room temperature, and the initial symptom included a small, soft, chlorosis to light brown lesion and later watery brown lesions. Pure cultures of the same characteristics were obtained from the isolated strains in four rotten fruits on PDA medium. The isolates grew into transparent radial mycelium on PDA in the first two days followed by abundant white, fluffy aerial mycelium. After 14 days, colonies formed white to light brown aerial mycelial mats with gray concentric rings, and they produced gray and embedded pycnidia. Alpha conidia of 4.4 to 8.8 µm × 1.4 to 3.3 µm (n = 50) were abundant in culture, hyaline, aseptate, ellipsoidal to fusiform, while Beta conidia at 20.5 to 28.6 µm × 1.0 to 1.4 µm (n = 50) were hyaline, long, slender, curved to hamate. These morphological characteristics were similar to Diaporthe species (anamorph: Phomopsis spp.) (Udayanga et al. 2014). For identification, DNA was extracted from three single isolates respectively , and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, β-tubulin (BT), and histone (HIS) H3 gene were amplified by using primers ITS1/ITS4 (White et al. 1990), T1/T22 (O'Donnell et al. 1997) and HIS1F/HISR (Gao et al. 2017), respectively. The three isolates produced identical sequences across all three gene regions, which were submitted to NCBI (Genbank accession numbers MT561361, MT561360 and MT855966). Nucleotide BLAST analysis revealed that the ITS sequence shared 99% homology with those of ex-type Diaporthe eres in NCBI GenBank (MG281047.1 and KJ210529.1), so did the BT sequence that had 98% identity to D. eres (MG281256.1 and KJ420799.1) and the HIS 99% identity to D. eres (MG28431.1 and MG281395.1) (Hosseini et al. 2020, Udayanga et al. 2014). Pathogenicity was tested by wound inoculation on the cv. Kwilv fruits. Five mature and healthy fruits were surface-sterilized with 1% NaClO solution, rinsed in sterile distilled water and dried. Every fruit was wounded by penetrate the peel 1-2 mm with a sterile needle, and inoculated with mycelium plugs (5 mm in diameter) of the isolate on PDA, with five inoculated with sterile PDA plugs as controls. Treated fruits were kept in sterilized transparent plastic cans separately under high humidity (RH 90 to 100%) at 28°C. After five days, the same rot symptoms were observed on all fruits inoculated with mycelium while the control remained symptomless. The fungi was re-isolated from the lesions of inoculated fruits and identified as D. eres by sequencing, thus fulfilling Koch's postulates. The pathogenicity experiment was re-performed using D. eres conidial suspension (107 conidia/ml) in sterile distilled water in October 2019 and the same results were obtained. D. eres was recently reported to cause European pear rot in Italy (Bertetti et al. 2018). To our knowledge, this is the first report of D. eres causing a postharvest rot in hardy kiwifruit in China, leading to severe disease and thus huge economic losses in Northeast China. Accordingly, effective measures should be taken to prevent its spreading to other production regions in China.

scholarly journals Impact of Inoculation Methods and Fruit Maturity on Development of Fusarium Fruit Rot (Fusarium musae) Disease in Banana

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.T. Baria ◽  
K.B. Rakholiya ◽  
A.K. Chaudhari
Keyword(s):  
Disease Severity ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Banana Fruit ◽  
Inoculation Methods ◽  
Fruit Maturity ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Fruit Disease ◽  
Rot Disease ◽  
Fruit Surface

Background: Fusarium fruit rot symptoms appear at all stages of banana fruit once infection initiates and progress from the stylar end as dark brown to black small spots which eventually turns black rotten areas leading to rotten pulp which renders the fruit unmarketable. Very meagre research work has been done on Fusarium fruit rot disease of banana in India and hence the present investigation on Fusarium fruit rot diseases of banana was undertaken south Gujarat condition. Methods: During the period 2018-2019 tested different inoculation methods were tested on the development of banana Fusarium fruit rot disease viz., stylar end pricking, rubbing, pricking at epicarp and without injury on banana fruit. Disease severity and incidence were recorded at 4th and 8th day after inoculation. In order to find out the most vulnerable stage of fruit for initiation of infection and development of Fusarium fruit rot disease, three stages of fruits were selected i.e., unripe, semi-ripe and ripe.Conclusion: Among, the different methods with fruit injury, stylar end pricking method was found best for the infection and development of Fusarium fruit rot (34.14%) after 8th days of inoculation followed by pricking at epicarp (27.79%). Further it was observed that injury of fruit surface is essential for infection and development of Fusarium fruit rot in banana. However, the severity of Fusarium fruit rot revealed that the highest severity was recorded in ripe fruits (30.21%) as compared to semi ripe (30.08%) and unripe (14.70%) fruits.

scholarly journals First record of Colletotrichum alienum Causing postharvest Anthracnose disease of mango fruit in China

Plant Disease ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanvir Ahmad ◽  
Jingjing Wang ◽  
Yongquan Zheng ◽  
Ankwasa Edgar Mugizi ◽  
Anam Moosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Post Inoculation ◽  
Pathogenicity Test ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Mango Fruit ◽  
Causal Organism ◽  
Isolation Technique ◽  
Anthracnose Disease ◽  
Colletotrichum Species ◽  
Fruit Surface

Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is one of the world's most significant economic fruit crops, and China is the second-largest producer of mango (Kuhn et al., 2017). Postharvest mango anthracnose is caused by Colletotrichum species and reduce the self-life of mature fruit (Wu et al., 2020). Colletotrichum species also cause postharvest anthracnose and fruit rot disease of Apple, Banana and Avocado (Khodadadi et al., 2020; Vieira et al., 2017; Sharma et al., 2017). In July 2019, mango fruits cv. ‘Jin-Hwang’ were observed at different fruit markets (39°48'42.1"N 116°20'17.0"E) of the Fengtai district, Beijing, China, exhibiting typical symptoms of anthracnose including brown to black lesions in different size (≤ 2 cm) with identified border on the mango fruit surface. Later, the lesions were coalesced and extensively cover the surface area of the fruit. The lesions were also restricted to peel the fruit and pathogen invaded in the fruit pulp. About 30% of mango fruits were affected by anthracnose disease. The margins of lesions from infected mango fruits (n=56) were cut into 2 × 2 mm pieces, surface disinfected with NaClO (2% v/v) for 30 s, rinsed thrice with distilled water for 60s. These pieces were placed on PDA medium and incubated at 25°C for 7 days. Pure culture of fungal isolates was obtained by single spore isolation technique. Initially, the fungal colony was off white, and colony extended with time, turning light gray at the center. The morphological examination revealed that conidia were hyaline, oblong, and unicellular. The conidia were measured from 10 days old culture and dimensions varied from 13.3 to 15.8 µm in length and 4.6 to 6.1 µm in width. For molecular identification, a multi-locus sequence analysis; the Internal Transcribed Spacers (ITS) region, partial actin (ACT) gene, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) gene and chitin synthase (CHS-1) gene were amplified by using the primer sets ITS1/4 (White et al. 1990), ACT-512F/ACT-783R (Carbone and Kohn 1999), GDF1/GDR1 (Guerber et al. 2003) and CHS1-79F/CHS-1-354R (Carbone and Kohn 1999) respectively. The partial sequences of MTY21 were deposited to GenBank accessions (MT921666 (ITS), MT936119 (ACT), MT936120 (GAPDH) and MT936118 (CHS-1). All obtained sequences showed 100% similarity with reported sequences of Colletotrichum alienum ICMP.18691 with accessions numbers JX010217 (ITS), JX009580 (ACT), JX010018 (GAPDH) and JX009754 (CHS-1) which represented the isolate MTY21 identified as C. alienum by constructing Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic tree analysis using Mega X (Kumar et al., 2018). For the confirmation of Koch's postulates, the pathogenicity test was conducted on 36 fresh healthy mango fruits for each treatment. Fruits were punctured with the help of a sterilized needle to create 2mm2 wounds and inoculated with 10µL inoculum (107 spores/mL) of MTY21. Control mango fruits were inoculated with 10µL sterilized distilled water and incubated at 25 °C with 90% relative humidity. The lesions appeared at the point of inoculation and gradually spread on the fruit surface after 7 days post inoculation. The symptoms were similar to the symptoms on original fruit specimens. The re-isolated fungus was identified as C. alienum based on morphological and molecular analysis. Mango anthracnose disease caused by several Colletotrichum species has been reported previously on mango in China (Li et al., 2019). Liu et al. (2020) reported C. alienum as the causal organism of anthracnose disease on Aquilaria sinensis in China. C. alienum has been previously reported causing mango anthracnose disease in Mexico (Tovar-Pedraza et al., 2020) To our knowledge, this is the first report of C. alienum causing postharvest anthracnose of mango in China. The prevalence of C. alienum was 30% on mango fruit which reflects the importance of this pathogen as a potential problem of mango fruit in China.

scholarly journals First Report of Pepper Fruit Rot Caused by Fusarium concentricum in China

Plant Disease ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 97 (12) ◽  
pp. 1657-1657 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Wang ◽  
Z. H. Feng ◽  
Z. Han ◽  
S. Q. Song ◽  
S. H. Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fusarium Species ◽  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Post Inoculation ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Conidial Suspension ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
First Report ◽  
Control Fruit ◽  
Pepper Fruit ◽  
Fruit Samples

Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is an important vegetable crop worldwide. Some Fusarium species can cause pepper fruit rot, leading to significant yield losses of pepper production and, for some Fusarium species, potential risk of mycotoxin contamination. A total of 106 diseased pepper fruit samples were collected from various pepper cultivars from seven provinces (Gansu, Hainan, Heilongjiang, Hunan, Shandong, Shanghai, and Zhejiang) in China during the 2012 growing season, where pepper production occurs on approximately 25,000 ha. Pepper fruit rot symptom incidence ranged from 5 to 20% in individual fields. Symptomatic fruit tissue was surface-sterilized in 0.1% HgCl2 for 1 min, dipped in 70% ethanol for 30 s, then rinsed in sterilized distilled water three times, dried, and plated in 90 mm diameter petri dishes containing potato dextrose agar (PDA). After incubation for 5 days at 28°C in the dark, putative Fusarium colonies were purified by single-sporing. Forty-three Fusarium strains were isolated and identified to species as described previously (1,2). Morphological characteristics of one strain were identical to those of F. concentricum. Aerial mycelium was reddish-white with an average growth rate of 4.2 to 4.3 mm/day at 25°C in the dark on PDA. Pigments in the agar were formed in alternating red and orange concentric rings. Microconidia were 0- to 1-septate, mostly 0-septate, and oval, obovoid to allantoid. Macroconidia were relatively slender with no significant curvature, 3- to 5-septate, with a beaked apical cell and a foot-shaped basal cell. To confirm the species identity, the partial TEF gene sequence (646 bp) was amplified and sequenced (GenBank Accession No. KC816735). A BLASTn search with TEF gene sequences in NCBI and the Fusarium ID databases revealed 99.7 and 100% sequence identity, respectively, to known TEF sequences of F. concentricum. Thus, both morphological and molecular criteria supported identification of the strain as F. concentricum. This strain was deposited as Accession MUCL 54697 (http://bccm.belspo.be/about/mucl.php). Pathogenicity of the strain was confirmed by inoculating 10 wounded, mature pepper fruits that had been harvested 70 days after planting the cultivar Zhongjiao-5 with a conidial suspension (1 × 106 spores/ml), as described previously (3). A control treatment consisted of inoculating 10 pepper fruits of the same cultivar with sterilized distilled water. The fruit were incubated at 25°C in a moist chamber, and the experiment was repeated independently in triplicate. Initially, green to dark brown lesions were observed on the outer surface of inoculated fruit. Typical soft-rot symptoms and lesions were observed on the inner wall when the fruit were cut open 10 days post-inoculation. Some infected seeds in the fruits were grayish-black and covered by mycelium, similar to the original fruit symptoms observed at the sampling sites. The control fruit remained healthy after 10 days of incubation. The same fungus was isolated from the inoculated infected fruit using the method described above, but no fungal growth was observed from the control fruit. To our knowledge, this is the first report of F. concentricum causing a pepper fruit rot. References: (1) J. F. Leslie and B. A. Summerell. The Fusarium Laboratory Manual. Blackwell Publishing, Ames, IA, 2006. (2) K. O'Donnell et al. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 95:2044, 1998. (3) Y. Yang et al. 2011. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 151:150, 2011.

scholarly journals Combined effects of food additives and heat treatment on fruit rot disease and quality of harvested dragon fruit

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 543-549
Author(s):  
Pongphen Jitareerat ◽  
Kanlaya Sripong ◽  
Kato Masaya ◽  
Sukanya Aiamla-or ◽  
Apiradee Uthairatanakij
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Dragon Fruit ◽  
Rot Disease

scholarly journals Characterization and Pathogenicity of Botryosphaeriaceae Species Collected from Olive and Other Hosts in Spain and California

2010 ◽  
Vol 100 (12) ◽  
pp. 1340-1351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Moral ◽  
Concepción Muñoz-Díez ◽  
Nazaret González ◽  
Antonio Trapero ◽  
Themis J. Michailides
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Data ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Elongation Factor ◽  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Disease Symptoms ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Olive Fly ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pathogenicity Tests ◽  
Olive Trees

Species in the family Botryosphaeriaceae are common pathogens causing fruit rot and dieback of many woody plants. In this study, 150 Botryosphaeriaceae isolates were collected from olive and other hosts in Spain and California. Representative isolates of each type were characterized based on morphological features and comparisons of DNA sequence data of three regions: internal transcribed spacer 5.8S, β-tubulin, and elongation factor. Three main species were identified as Neofusicoccum mediterraneum, causing dieback of branches of olive and pistachio; Diplodia seriata, causing decay of ripe fruit and dieback of olive branches; and Botryosphaeria dothidea, causing dalmatian disease on unripe olive fruit in Spain. Moreover, the sexual stage of this last species was also found attacking olive branches in California. In pathogenicity tests using unripe fruit and branches of olive, D. seriata isolates were the least aggressive on the fruit and branches while N. mediterraneum isolates were the most aggressive on both tissues. Isolates of B. dothidea which cause dalmatian disease on fruit were not pathogenic on branches and only weakly aggressive on fruit. These results, together with the close association between the presence of dalmatian disease symptoms and the wound created by the olive fly (Bactrocera oleae), suggest that the fly is essential for the initiation of the disease on fruit. Isolates recovered from dalmatian disease symptoms had an optimum of 26°C for mycelial growth and 30°C for conidial germination, suggesting that the pathogen is well adapted to high summer temperatures. In contrast, the range of water activity in the medium for growth of dalmatian isolates was 0.93 to 1 MPa, which was similar to that for the majority of fungi. This study resolved long-standing questions of identity and pathogenicity of species within the family Botryosphaeriaceae attacking olive trees in Spain and California.

scholarly journals Occurrence of a Postharvest Fruit Rot Disease of Apples Caused by Boeremia exigua var. exigua in Ptolemaida Kozani, Greece

Plant Disease ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 100 (11) ◽  
pp. 2333 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Thomidis ◽  
A. Zambounis ◽  
I. Prodromou
Keyword(s):  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Rot Disease

scholarly journals Isolatation and Identification of the Fungi Causing Tomato Fruit Rot Disease in the Vicinity of Tandojam, Sindh

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Nizamani ◽  
A. A. Khaskheli ◽  
A. M. Jiskani ◽  
S. A. Khaskheli ◽  
A. J. Khaskheli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tomato Fruit ◽  
Aerial Mycelium ◽  
Alternaria Solani ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Geotrichum Candidum ◽  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Post Harvest ◽  
Standard Procedures ◽  
Fruit Samples ◽  
Rot Disease

Background: The post-harvest tomato fruit rot disease is common threat to the tomato fruit, causing huge economic loss as revealed by (GOP, 2018). The present study was conducted for isolatation and identification of causative agent of tomato fruit rot in order to formulate the proper management stretegies. Methods: Study was conducted in three phases. Phase one included collection of tomato fruit samples from vicinity of Tandojam. In phase two pathogens were isolated from the samples at laboratory, while in the phase three pathogens were identified using standard procedures. Result: The experimental results indicated Alternaria solani as the main cause of post-harvest tomato fruit rot. The symptoms observed were presence of brown to black rot lesions on tomato fruits with distinct rings ranging from small pin-heads to whole surface of fruit. A total of six different fungi viz., Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus niger, Alternaria solani, Geotrichum candidum, Fusarium oxysporum and Rhizopus stolonifer were found to be associated with post harvest tomato rot. Significantly higher infection was recorded for A. solani (53.667%) followed by A. niger (16.333%) and G. candidum (13.00%). The lowest infection percentage was observed for F. oxysporum (2.333%), followed by A. alternata (4.00%) and R. stolonifer (9.00%). A. solani produced aerial mycelium with yellowish to reddish diffusible pigments. A. niger cultures were typically black and colonies were initially whitish to yellow and later became brown to black in colour. G. candidum produced white and nonaerial colonies. F. oxysporum produced circular, aerial mycelium initially white, later changed to light pink. R. stolonifer produced whitish to grey fuzzy colonies.

scholarly journals Intensitas dan Luas Serangan Beberapa Isolat Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. zingiberi pada Jahe Gajah

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Hermawati Cahyaningrum ◽  
Nur Prihatiningsih ◽  
Soedarmono Soedarmono
Keyword(s):  
Fusarium Oxysporum ◽  
Sterile Soil ◽  
Soil Medium ◽  
Disease Symptoms ◽  
Ginger Rhizome ◽  
Incubation Periods ◽  
Rot Disease ◽  
Screen House ◽  
Rhizome Rot ◽  
Growth Ability

Ginger is one of the spices and medicinal commodities which is cultivated in Indonesia. One of the obstacles encountered in the cultivation of ginger is the rhizome rot disease which is mainly caused by Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht f.sp. zingiberi Trujillo. This study is aimed to know the growth ability and virulence level of the isolates on ginger rhizome and plants. The research was conducted in the laboratory and in the screen house by using Complete Random Design consisted of 10 treatments and 4 replications. The parameters observed were growth ability of F. oxysporum f.sp. zingiberi, rhizome rot disease symptoms, incubation period, extensive decay and weight difference of the rhizomes. The results showed that F. oxysporum f.sp. zingiberi which was stored for 4 years in sterile soil medium was still capable to cause damage to the rhizome and plants. Incubation periods of rhizome decay and plant symptoms were from 3 to 11.5 and 55.5 to 68.5 days, respectively. The most virulent isolate was MSO1 with extensive decay of rhizome and the wilting intensity were 108.95 mm2 dan 33.88%, respectively. IntisariJahe merupakan salah satu komoditas rempah dan obat yang banyak dibudidayakan di Indonesia. Salah satu kendala yang dihadapi dalam budidaya jahe adalah adanya gangguan penyakit busuk rimpang yang disebabkan (terutama) oleh Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht f.sp. zingiberi Trujillo. Penelitian bertujuan untuk menguji daya tumbuh dan virulensi isolat F. oxysporum f.sp. zingiberi pada rimpang dan tanaman jahe gajah. Penelitian dilakukan di laboratorium dan di rumah kasa menggunakan Rancangan Acak Kelompok Lengkap (RAKL) yang masing-masing terdiri dari 10 perlakuan dan 4 ulangan. Parameter yang diamati meliputi daya tumbuh F. oxysporum f.sp. zingiberi, gejala penyakit busuk rimpang, masa inkubasi, luas pembusukan dan selisih bobot basah rimpang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa F. oxysporum f.sp. zingiberi yang telah di simpan 4 tahun dalam medium tanah steril mampu menyebabkan kerusakan pada rimpang dan tanaman jahe. Masa inkubasi gejala busuk pada rimpang serta gejala pada tanaman masing- masing berkisar antara 3–11,5 serta 55,5–68,5 hari. Isolat yang paling virulen adalah MSO1 dengan nilai luas pembusukan pada rimpang dan intensitas penyakit masing-masing sebesar 108,95 mm2 dan 33,88%.

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