scholarly journals First Report of Glomerella cingulata (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides) Causing Anthracnose and Tip Dieback of Lygodium microphyllum and L. japonicum in Australia

Plant Disease ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 92 (9) ◽  
pp. 1369-1369 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. B. Ireland ◽  
N. A. Haji Mohamad Noor ◽  
E. A. B. Aitken ◽  
S. Schmidt ◽  
J. C. Volin
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Colletotrichum Gloeosporioides ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Direct Sequencing ◽  
Pathogenic Fungi ◽  
In Planta ◽  
Glomerella Cingulata ◽  
Isolation And Identification ◽  
First Report ◽  
Introduced Range

The Old World climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R. Br., and Japanese climbing fern, L. japonicum (Thunb.) Sw., are invasive noxious weeds in Florida (1). Exploratory surveys for classical biological control agents of L. microphyllum in the fern's native range of Australia and Asia have focused on aboveground herbivores (1). From February to August 2006, fungi were isolated from symptomatic foliage, including lesions associated with leaf curls caused by the mite Flocarus perrepae Knihinicki & Boczek., obtained from L. microphyllum at sites across southeast Queensland, Australia and from both fern species grown at the CSIRO Long Pocket Laboratories in Brisbane, Australia. Anthracnose symptoms with chlorotic margins, initiating at the tip or base of the individual pinnules, were observed on fronds. Dieback symptoms affected growing tips, with sunken lesions and a gradual necrotic wilt as far as the next growth junction of pinnae. Sections from diseased margins were surface sterilized, placed onto water agar, and incubated at 23°C with a 16-h photoperiod. Variable colonies of white-to-gray mycelia, felted or tufted with complete margins, grew well on oatmeal agar and potato dextrose agar. Conidia were hyaline to light salmon, aseptate, straight, and cylindrical (10.4 to 18.2 × 2.6 to 5.2 μm), borne in salmon-to-bright orange masses at 25°C, and consistent with previous descriptions of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Penz. & Sacc. (3), anamorph of Glomerella cingulata (2). Asci that formed after 3 to 4 weeks in culture were eight-spored, clavate to cylindrical (46.8 to 62.4 × 9.1 to 11.7 μm), and thickened at the apex, and ascospores were cylindrical (11.7 to 18.2 × 3.9 to 5.2 μm), slightly curved, unicellular and hyaline, which is consistent with descriptions of G. cingulata (2). No fruiting bodies were observed in planta; acervuli, setae, and perethecia were not observed. Identification was further confirmed by molecular analysis using the primer pair ITS1/ITS4 (4) (GenBank Accession No. EU697014), indicating 100% similarity to isolates of G. cingulata. To confirm pathogenicity, Koch's postulates were performed on three plants of L. japonicum and 12 plants of L. microphyllum, with an equal number of controls. Conidial suspensions were made to 1.7 × 106 conidia ml–1. During the experiments in the glasshouse, temperatures ranged from 12.6 to 40°C and relative humidity from 39 to 85%. Tips and fronds were collected after 2 to 8 weeks and isolation and identification performed. G. cingulata was consistently reisolated from diseased tissue. No symptoms appeared on controls and isolations did not yield the pathogen. To our knowledge, this is the first report of G. cingulata infecting L. microphyllum and L. japonicum in Australia. Its potential as a biological control agent in the ferns' introduced range remains to be tested. References: (1) J. A. Goolsby et al. Biol. Control. 28:33, 2003. (2) J. E. M. Mordue. Glomerella cingulata. No. 315 in: CMI Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria. CAB, Kew, UK, 1971. (3) B. C. Sutton. The Genus Glomerella and its Anamorph Colletotrichum. In: Colletotrichum: Biology, Pathology and Control. J. A. Bailey and M. J. Jeger, eds. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 1992. (4) T. M. White et al. Amplification and Direct Sequencing of Fungal Ribosomal RNA for Phylogenetics. Page 315 in: PCR Protocols: A Guide to Methods and Applications. M. A. Innis et al., eds. Academic Press, San Diego, 1990.

scholarly journals First Report of Stem Canker of Salsola tragus Caused by Diaporthe eres in Russia

Plant Disease ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kolomiets ◽  
Z. Mukhina ◽  
T. Matveeva ◽  
D. Bogomaz ◽  
D. K. Berner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Biological Control ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Aqueous Suspension ◽  
Stem Canker ◽  
The United States ◽  
Invasive Weed ◽  
Voucher Specimen ◽  
First Report ◽  
Stem Lesions

Salsola tragus L. (Russian thistle) is a problematic invasive weed in the western United States and a target of biological control efforts. In September of 2007, dying S. tragus plants were found along the Azov Sea at Chushka, Russia. Dying plants had irregular, necrotic, canker-like lesions near the base of the stems and most stems showed girdling and cracking. Stem lesions were dark brown and contained brown pycnidia within and extending along lesion-free sections of the stems and basal portions of leaves. Diseased stems were cut into 3- to 5-mm pieces and disinfested in 70% ethyl alcohol. After drying, stem pieces were placed into petri dishes on the surface of potato glucose agar. Numerous, dark, immersed erumpent pycnidia with a single ostiole were observed in all lesions after 2 to 3 days. Axenic cultures were sent to the Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, USDA, ARS, Ft. Detrick, MD for testing in quarantine. Conidiophores were simple, cylindrical, and 5 to 25 × 2 μm (mean 12 × 2 μm). Alpha conidia were biguttulate, one-celled, hyaline, nonseptate, ovoid, and 6.3 to 11.5 × 1.3 to 2.9 μm (mean 8.8 × 2.0 μm). Beta conidia were one-celled, filiform, hamate, hyaline, and 11.1 to 24.9 × 0.3 to 2.5 μm (mean 17.7 × 1.2 μm). The isolate was morphologically identified as a species of Phomopsis, the conidial state of Diaporthe (1). The teleomorph was not observed. A comparison with available sequences in GenBank using BLAST found 528 of 529 identities with the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence of an authentic and vouchered Diaporthe eres Nitschke (GenBank DQ491514; BPI 748435; CBS 109767). Morphology is consistent with that of Phomopsis oblonga (Desm.) Traverso, the anamorph of D. eres (2). Healthy stems and leaves of 10 30-day-old plants of S. tragus were spray inoculated with an aqueous suspension of conidia (1.0 × 106 alpha conidia/ml plus 0.1% v/v polysorbate 20) harvested from 14-day-old cultures grown on 20% V8 juice agar. Another 10 control plants were sprayed with water and surfactant without conidia. Plants were placed in an environmental chamber at 100% humidity (rh) for 16 h with no lighting at 25°C. After approximately 24 h, plants were transferred to a greenhouse at 20 to 25°C, 30 to 50% rh, and natural light. Stem lesions developed on three inoculated plants after 14 days and another three plants after 21 days. After 70 days, all inoculated plants were diseased, four were dead, and three had more than 75% diseased tissue. No symptoms occurred on control plants. The Phomopsis state was recovered from all diseased plants. This isolate of D. eres is a potential biological control agent of S. tragus in the United States. A voucher specimen has been deposited with the U.S. National Fungus Collections (BPI 878717). Nucleotide sequences for the ribosomal ITS regions (ITS 1 and 2) were deposited in GenBank (Accession No. EU805539). To our knowledge, this is the first report of stem canker on S. tragus caused by D. eres. References: (1) B. C. Sutton. Page 569 in: The Coelomycetes. CMI, Kew, Surrey, UK, 1980. (2) L. E. Wehmeyer. The Genus Diaporthe Nitschke and its Segregates. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1933.

scholarly journals First Report of Phragmidium violaceum Infecting Himalaya and Evergreen Blackberries in North America

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Osterbauer ◽  
A. Trippe ◽  
K. French ◽  
T. Butler ◽  
M. C. Aime ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Biological Control ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
North America ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
First Report ◽  
Official Report

Phragmidium violaceum occurs on several species of Rubus, including R. armeniacus, R. fruticosus agg., and R. laciniatus, in Europe, South Africa, Iran, and Iraq, and has been introduced as a biological control agent for invasive blackberries in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile. To our knowledge, this is the first official report of P. violaceum infecting Himalaya and evergreen blackberries in North America. Accepted for publication 16 September 2005. Published 23 September 2005.

scholarly journals First Report of Anthracnose of Salsola tragus Caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in Greece

Plant Disease ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 90 (7) ◽  
pp. 971-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Berner ◽  
C. A. Cavin ◽  
M. B. McMahon ◽  
I. Loumbourdis
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Colletotrichum Gloeosporioides ◽  
Type A ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ionic Surfactant ◽  
Potential Candidate ◽  
Conidial Suspension ◽  
Type B ◽  
First Report ◽  
Stems And Leaves

In early October of 2005, dying Salsola tragus L. (Russian thistle, tumbleweed), family Chenopodiaceae, plants were found along the Aegean Sea at Kryopigi Beach, Greece (40°02′29″N, 23°29′02″E, elevation 0 m). All of the 30 to 40 plants in the area were diseased and approximately 80% were dead or dying. All plants were relatively large (approximately 1 m tall × 0.5 m diameter), and living portions of diseased plants were flowering. Dying plants had irregular, necrotic lesions extending the length of the stems. Leaves of these plants were also necrotic. Lesions on stems and leaves were dark brown and usually coalesced. Diseased stem pieces were taken to the European Biological Control Laboratory, USDA, ARS at the American Farm School in Thessaloniki, Greece. There, diseased stem pieces were surface disinfested for 15 min with 0.5% NaOCl and placed on moist filter paper in petri dishes. Numerous, waxy subepidermal acervuli with black setae were observed in all lesions after 2 to 3 days. Conidiophores were simple, short, and erect. Conidia were one-celled, hyaline, ovoid to oblong, falcate to straight, 12.9 to 18.0 × 2.8 to 5.5 μm (mode 16.1 × 4.5 μm). These characters conformed to the description of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Penz. & Sacc. in Penz. (2). Conidia were placed on modified potato carrot agar and axenic cultures from these isolations were sent to the quarantine facility of the Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, USDA, ARS, Fort Detrick, MD for testing. On the basis of DNA sequences, two variants within S. tragus have been described in California and named “Type A” and “Type B” (1). Conidia were harvested from 14-day-old cultures grown on 20% V8 juice agar, and healthy stems and leaves of 18 30-day-old plants of S. tragus Type A and 10 Type B plants were spray inoculated with an aqueous conidial suspension (1.0 × 106 conidia/ml plus 0.1% non-ionic surfactant). Three control plants of each type were sprayed with water and surfactant only. Plants were placed in an environmental chamber (18 h of dew in darkness at 25°C). After 1 day, all plants were transferred to a greenhouse (20 to 25°C, 30 to 50% relative humidity, and natural light augmented with 12-h light periods with 500-W sodium vapor lights). Lesions developed on stems of inoculated Type A plants after 5 days. After 14 days, all inoculated Type A plants were dead. Lesions on Type B plants were small and localized; all plants were diseased but no plants died. No symptoms occurred on control plants. C. gloeosporioides was reisolated 14 to 21 days after inoculation from stem pieces of all inoculated plants of both types of S. tragus. This isolate of C. gloeosporioides is a destructive pathogen on S. tragus Type A and is a potential candidate for biological control of this weed in the United States. To our knowledge, this is the first report of anthracnose caused by C. gloeosporioides on S. tragus in Greece. A voucher specimen has been deposited with the U.S. National Fungus Collections, Beltsville, MD (BPI 871126). Nucleotide sequences for the internal transcribed spacers (ITS 1 and 2) were deposited in GenBank (Accession No. DQ344621) and exactly matched sequences of the teleomorph, Glomerella cingulata. References: (1) F. Ryan and D. Ayres. Can. J. Bot. 78:59, 2000. (2) B. C. Sutton. Page 15 in: Colletotrichum Biology, Pathology and Control. J. A. Bailey and M. J. Jeger, eds. CAB International Mycological Institute, Wallingford, UK, 1992.

scholarly journals First Report of Leaf Spot Caused by a Cercosporella sp. on Centaurea solstitialis in Greece

Plant Disease ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 88 (12) ◽  
pp. 1382-1382 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Eskandari ◽  
D. K. Berner ◽  
J. Kashefi ◽  
L. Strieth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Biological Control ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Aqueous Suspension ◽  
The United States ◽  
Centaurea Solstitialis ◽  
Voucher Specimen ◽  
Disease Symptoms ◽  
First Report ◽  
Leaf Spots

Centaurea solstitialis L. (yellow starthistle [YST]), family Asteraceae, an invasive weed in California and the western United States is targeted for biological control. During the spring of 2004, an epidemic of dying YST plants was found near Kozani, Greece (40°22′07″N, 21°52′35″E, 634 m elevation). Rosettes of YST had small, brown leaf spots on most of the lower leaves. In many cases, these spots coalesced and resulted in necrosis of many of the leaves and death of the rosette. Along the roadside where the disease was found, >100 of the YST plants showed disease symptoms. Diseased plants were collected, air dried, and sent to the quarantine facility of the Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit (FDWSRU), USDA, ARS, Fort Detrick, MD. Diseased leaves were surface disinfested and placed on moist filter paper in petri dishes. Conidiophores and conidia were observed after 48 h. The fungal isolate, DB04-011, was isolated from these diseased leaves. Pathogenicity tests were performed by spray inoculating the foliage of 20 4-week-old YST rosettes with an aqueous suspension of 1 × 106 conidia per ml. Conidia were harvested from 2-week-old cultures grown on modified potato carrot agar (MPCA). Inoculated plants were placed in an environmental chamber at 23°C with 8 h of daily light and continuous dew for 48 h. Inoculated and control plants were moved to a 20°C greenhouse bench and watered twice per day. After 7 days, leaf spots were observed first on lower leaves. After 10–12 days, all inoculated plants showed typical symptoms of the disease. No symptoms developed on control plants. The pathogen, DB04-011, was consistently isolated from symptomatic leaves of all inoculated plants. Disease symptoms were scattered, amphigenous leaf spots in circular to subcircular spots that were 0.2 to 7 mm in diameter and brownish with distinct dark green margins. Intraepidermal stromata, 14 to 77 μm in diameter and pale yellow to brown, were formed within the spots. Conidiophores that arose from the stromata were straight, subcylindrical, simple, 70 to 95 × 2.8 to 4 μm, hyaline, smooth, and continuous or septate with conidial scars that were somewhat thickened, colorless, and refractive. Primary conidia were subcylindrical, slightly obclavate or fusiform, ovoid, 21 to 49 × 5 to 7.5 μm, 0 to 5 septate, hyaline, smooth, had a relatively rounded apex, and the hilum was slightly thickened. Conidial dimensions on MPCA were 11.2 to 39.2 × 4.2 to 7 μm (average 25.5 × 5.5 μm). Koch's postulates were repeated two more times with 20 and 16 plants. On the basis of fungal morphology, the organism was identified as a Cercosporella sp., (1,2; U. Braun and N. Ale-Agha, personal communication). To our knowledge, this is the first report of this genus of fungus parasitizing YST. Results of host range tests will establish if this isolate of Cercosporella has potential as a biological control agent of YST in the United States. A voucher specimen has been deposited with the U.S. National Fungus Collections (BPI 844247). Live cultures are being maintained at FDWSRU and European Biological Control Laboratoryt (EBCL), Greece. References: (1) U. Braun. A Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera (Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes) Vol. 1. IHW-Verlage, Eching-by-Munich, 1995. (2) U. Braun. A Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera (Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes) Vol. 2. IHW-Verlage, 1998.

scholarly journals First Report of Anthracnose Disease on Young Stems of Bawanghua (Hylocereus undatus) Caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in China

Plant Disease ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 98 (7) ◽  
pp. 991-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Ma ◽  
X. Yang ◽  
X. R. Wang ◽  
Y. S. Zeng ◽  
M. D. Liao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colletotrichum Gloeosporioides ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Pathogenic Fungi ◽  
First Report ◽  
Guangzhou City ◽  
Anthracnose Disease ◽  
Hylocereus Undatus

Hylocereus undatus widely grows in southern China. Some varieties are planted for their fruits, known as dragon fruits or Pitaya, while some varieties for their flowers known as Bawanghua. Fresh or dried flowers of Bawanghua are used as routine Chinese medicinal food. Since 2008, a serious anthracnose disease has led to great losses on Bawanghua flower production farms in the Baiyun district of Guangzhou city in China. Anthracnose symptoms on young stems of Bawanghua are reddish-brown, sunken lesions with pink masses of spores in the center. The lesions expand rapidly in the field or in storage, and may coalesce in the warm and wet environment in spring and summer in Guangzhou. Fewer flowers develop on infected stems than on healthy ones. The fungus overwinters in infected debris in the soil. The disease caused a loss of up to 50% on Bawanghua. Putative pathogenic fungi with whitish-orange colonies were isolated from a small piece of tissue (3 × 3 mm) cut from a lesion margin and cultured on potato dextrose agar in a growth chamber at 25°C, 80% RH. Dark colonies with acervuli bearing pinkish conidial masses formed 14 days later. Single celled conidia were 11 to 18 × 4 to 6 μm. Based on these morphological characteristics, the fungi were identified as Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Penz. & Sacc (2). To confirm this, DNA was extracted from isolate BWH1 and multilocus analyses were completed with DNA sequence data generated from partial ITS region of nrDNA, actin (ACT) and glutamine synthetase (GS) nucleotide sequences by PCR, with C. gloeosporioides specific primers as ITS4 (5′-TCCTCCGCTTATTGATATGC-3′) / CgInt (5′-GGCCTCCCGCCTCCGGGCGG-3′), GS-F (5′-ATGGCCGAGTACATCTGG-3′) / GS-R (5′-GAACCGTCGAAGTTCCAC-3′) and actin-R (5′-ATGTGCAAGGCCGGTTTCGC-3′) / actin-F (5′-TACGAGTCCTTCTGGCCCAT-3′). The sequence alignment results indicated that the obtained partial ITS sequence of 468 bp (GenBank Accession No. KF051997), actin sequence of 282 bp (KF712382), and GS sequence of 1,021 bp (KF719176) are 99%, 96%, and 95% identical to JQ676185.1 for partial ITS, FJ907430 for ACT, and FJ972589 for GS of C. gloeosporioides previously deposited, respectively. For testing its pathogenicity, 20 μl of conidia suspension (1 × 106 conidia/ml) using sterile distilled water (SDW) was inoculated into artificial wounds on six healthy young stems of Bawanghua using sterile fine-syringe needle. Meanwhile, 20 μl of SDW was inoculated on six healthy stems as a control. The inoculated stems were kept at 25°C, about 90% relative humidity. Three independent experiments were carried out. Reddish-brown lesions formed after 10 days, on 100% stems (18 in total) inoculated by C. gloeosporioides, while no lesion formed on any control. The pathogen was successfully re-isolated from the inoculated stem lesions on Bawanghua. Thus, Koch's postulates were fulfilled. Colletotrichum anthracnose has been reported on Pitaya in Japan (3), Malaysia (1) and in Brazil (4). To our knowledge, this is the first report of anthracnose disease caused by C. gloeosporioides on young stems of Bawanghua (H. undatus) in China. References: (1) M. Masyahit et al. Am. J. Appl. Sci. 6:902, 2009. (2) B. C. Sutton. Page 402 in: Colletotrichum Biology, Pathology and Control. J. A. Bailey and M. J. Jeger, eds. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 1992. (3) S. Taba et al. Jpn. J. Phytopathol. 72:25, 2006. (4) L. M. Takahashi et al. Australas. Plant Dis. Notes 3:96, 2008.

scholarly journals First Report of Stem and Leaf Anthracnose on Blueberry Caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in China

Plant Disease ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 845-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. Xu ◽  
Z. S. Zhou ◽  
Y. X. Wu ◽  
F. M. Chi ◽  
Z. R. Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colletotrichum Gloeosporioides ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Pathogenic Fungi ◽  
Molecular Characteristics ◽  
First Report ◽  
Potted Plants ◽  
Leaf Spots ◽  
Pathogenicity Tests ◽  
Highbush Blueberries

Blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) is becoming increasingly popular in China as a nutritional berry crop. With the expansion of blueberry production, many diseases have become widespread in different regions of China. In August of 2012, stem and leaf spots symptomatic of anthracnose were sporadically observed on highbush blueberries in a field located in Liaoning, China, where approximately 15% of plants were diseased. Symptoms first appeared as yellow to reddish, irregularly-shaped lesions on leaves and stems. The lesions then expanded, becoming dark brown in the center and surrounded by a reddish halo. Leaf and stem tissues (5 × 5 mm) were cut from the lesion margins and surface-disinfected in 70% ethanol for 30 s, followed by three rinses with sterile water before placing on potato dextrose agar (PDA). Plates were incubated at 28°C. Colonies were initially white, becoming grayish-white to gray with yellow spore masses. Conidia were one-celled, hyaline, and cylindrical with rounded ends, measuring 15.0 to 25.0 × 4.0 to 7.5 μm. No teleomorph was observed. The fungus was tentatively identified as Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (PenZ.) PenZ & Sacc. (teleomorph Glomerella cingulata (Stoneman) Spauld. & H. Schrenk) based on morphological characteristics of the colony and conidia (1). Genomic DNA was extracted from isolate XCG1 and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the ribosomal DNA (ITS1–5.8S-ITS2) was amplified with primer pairs ITS1 and ITS4. BLAST searches showed 99% identity with C. gloeosporioides isolates in GenBank (Accession No. AF272779). The sequence of isolate XCG1 (C. gloeosporioides) was deposited into GenBank (JX878503). Pathogenicity tests were conducted on 2-year-old potted blueberries, cv. Berkeley. Stems and leaves of 10 potted blueberry plants were wounded with a sterilized needle and sprayed with a suspension of 105 conidia per ml of sterilized water. Five healthy potted plants were inoculated with sterilized water as control. Dark brown lesions surrounded by reddish halos developed on all inoculated leaves and stems after 7 days, and the pathogen was reisolated from lesions of 50% of inoculated plants as described above. The colony and conidial morphology were identical to the original isolate XCG1. No symptoms developed on the control plants. The causal agent of anthracnose on blueberry was identified as C. gloeosporioides on the basis of morphological and molecular characteristics, and its pathogenicity was confirmed with Koch's postulates. Worldwide, it has been reported that blueberry anthracnose might be caused by C. acutatum and C. gloeosporioides (2). However, we did not isolate C. acutatum during this study. To our knowledge, this is the first report of stem and leaf anthracnose of blueberry caused by C. gloeosporioides in China. References: (1) J. M. E. Mourde. No 315. CMI Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria. Kew, Surrey, UK, 1971. (2) N. Verma, et al. Plant Pathol. 55:442, 2006.

scholarly journals Draft Genome Sequence of the Mycoparasitic Oomycete Pythium periplocum Strain CBS 532.74

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeep K. Kushwaha ◽  
Ramesh R. Vetukuri ◽  
Laura J. Grenville-Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Genome Sequence ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Draft Genome ◽  
Pathogenic Fungi ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Draft Genome Sequence ◽  
Plant Pathogenic Fungi ◽  
Protein Coding ◽  
Protein Coding Genes

ABSTRACT The oomycete Pythium periplocum is an aggressive mycoparasite of a number of plant pathogenic fungi and oomycetes and therefore has potential as a biological control agent. Here, we report the first draft genome sequence of P. periplocum, which comprises 35.89 Mb. It contains 1,043 scaffolds and 14,399 predicted protein-coding genes.

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