scholarly journals Powdery Mildew, Caused by Leveillula taurica, on Spinach in California

Plant Disease ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Koike ◽  
C. Feng ◽  
J. C. Correll
Author(s):  
K. G. Mukerji

Abstract A description is provided for Leveillula taurica. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On Gossypium barbadense, G. hirsutum and Cyamopsis psoraloides[Cyamopsis tetragonoloba]. Also on many other trees and shrubs belonging to the Leguminoseae, Malvaceae and Euphorbiaceae (Salmon, 1900; Blumer, 1933; Tarr, 1955; 37: 521). DISEASES: Powdery mildew of cotton and guar. The host becomes completely covered with the fungus which mostly forms conidia and rarely cleistothecia. Severe attacks cause defoliation. Komarov (1895) reported that in Seravschan-Turkestan every plant of the steppes up to 1219-1524 m is attacked. The fungus does not occur beyond 1829 m. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: World wide but mainly in the mediterranean region, Central Europe and the Near East (Dennis, 1960; CMI Map 217; 37: 400). TRANSMISSION: Wind borne. In the Sudan the pathogen over-summers on Euphorbia heterophylla, a common weed (37: 521).


2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-353
Author(s):  
Hugo Beltrán-Peña ◽  
Alma Rosa Solano-Báez ◽  
Miguel Ángel Apodaca-Sánchez ◽  
Moisés Camacho-Tapia ◽  
Rubén Félix-Gastélum ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean A. Glawe ◽  
Tess Barlow ◽  
Jordan E. Eggers ◽  
Philip B. Hamm

In August 2009, a grower reported a disease affecting nearly all plants in a drip-irrigated field of sweet pepper cv. Excalibur in Umatilla Co., OR. The fungus was determined to be Leveillula taurica (Lév.) G. Arnaud, previously unreported from this host in Oregon or from field-grown peppers in the Pacific Northwest. This report documents the taxonomic determination of this species and provides information about the disease outbreak, including economic impact. Accepted for publication 18 May 2010. Published 8 July 2010.


2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 782-786
Author(s):  
Stefan Kusch ◽  
Márk Z. Németh ◽  
Niloofar Vaghefi ◽  
Heba M. M. Ibrahim ◽  
Ralph Panstruga ◽  
...  

Powdery mildew of sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum) is an economically important disease. It is caused by Leveillula taurica, an obligate biotrophic ascomycete with a partly endophytic mycelium and haustoria, i.e., feeding structures formed in the mesophyll cells of infected host plant tissues. The molecular basis of its pathogenesis is largely unknown because genomic resources only exist for epiphytically growing powdery mildew fungi with haustoria formed exclusively in epidermal cells of their plant hosts. Here, we present the first reference genome assembly for an isolate of L. taurica isolated from sweet pepper in Hungary. The short read–based assembly consists of 23,599 contigs with a total length of 187.2 Mbp; the scaffold N50 is 13,899 kbp and N90 is 3,522 kbp; and the average GC content is 39.2%. We detected at least 92,881 transposable elements covering 55.5 Mbp (30.4%). BRAKER predicted 19,751 protein-coding gene models in this assembly. Our reference genome assembly of L. taurica is the first resource to study the molecular pathogenesis and evolution of a powdery mildew fungus with a partly endophytic lifestyle.


Author(s):  
Yi-Ting Xiao ◽  
Hiran A. Ariyawansa ◽  
Chao-Jen Wang ◽  
Tung-Chin Huang ◽  
Yuan-Min Shen

2015 ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
B.J. Aegerter ◽  
C.S. Stoddard ◽  
E.M. Miyao ◽  
M. Le Strange ◽  
T.A. Turini

1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (22) ◽  
pp. 2501-2508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitoshi Kunoh ◽  
Mitsuru Kohno ◽  
Sadayoshi Tashiro ◽  
Hiroshi Ishizaki

Almost all ultrastructural studies of powdery-mildew fungi have been focused on the epiparasitic fungi. In this paper, one of the endoparasitic powdery-mildew fungi, Leveillula taurica (Lev.) Arn., on green pepper (Capsicum annuum L. var. angulosum Mill.) leaves was investigated by light and electron microscopy. Most germinated conidia formed a lobed adhesion body (similar to the appressorium in morphology but different in function) before stomatal invasion. The track of the adhesion body on the leaf epidermis was depressed, and no cuticular perforations were observed in it. After stomatal invasion, infection hyphae grew extensively into the intercellular spaces of the leaves and formed haustoria in the spongy- and palisade-parenchyma cells. The haustorium was flask shaped with a neck arising from the intercellular hypha. The overall profiles of the haustorium resembled those of epiphytic powdery-mildew fungi of other authors; the haustorium was composed of a nucleate central body and many anucleate lobes, and the entire structure was bounded by an extrahaustorial membrane. Papillae consisting of three distinct regions formed against the outer cell walls at the site of penetration. The most obvious alteration in infected host cells was a marked increase in the number of large lipid bodies. Lipid bodies increased in number with time after haustorial formation. They appeared first in the host cytoplasm near the extrahaustorial membrane, then in the extrahaustorial matrix and haustorial body.


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