scholarly journals First record of Phyllactinia moricola (Erysiphales, Ascomycota) on Morus alba in Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 274-281
Author(s):  
V.P. Heluta ◽  
◽  
V.G. Korytnianska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morus Alba ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Powdery Mildew Fungus ◽  
Silk Production ◽  
Significant Damage

Information on the record of Phyllactinia moricola, a new in Ukraine alien powdery mildew fungus, is reported. The teleomorph of the fungus was collected in October–December 2020 on Morus alba in Odesa. The description and illustrations of the studied material are provided. The disease caused by this species can significantly reduce the ornamental properties of mulberry, a popular plant that is often used in greenery in the settlements of Ukraine. It is noted that the fungus can spread to Southern Europe, where it may cause significant damage to horticulture and silk production.

scholarly journals First Record of Oidiopsis taurica Causing Powdery Mildew of Capparis spinosa in Egypt

Plant Disease ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 555-555
Author(s):  
A. M. Abdel-Azeem ◽  
T. S. Abdel-Moneim
Keyword(s):  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
First Record ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Conidial Suspension ◽  
Powdery Mildew Fungus ◽  
Botany Department ◽  
Fungus Mycelium ◽  
Capparis Spinosa ◽  
Pathogenicity Tests

Powdery mildew infections were observed on Capparis spinosa plants in Wadi El-Arbaein, Saint Katherine Protectorate, Egypt (28°32′43.1″N, 33°57′81″E, altitude 1,663 m) in the early fall to the end of winter of 2007 and 2008 when temperatures vary from the lowest mean value of 2.8°C to the highest mean value of 26.5°C. Symptoms first appeared as white, circular patches on the adaxial leaf surface (<1.3 cm in diameter), and as the disease progressed, both leaf surfaces were infected and these chlorotic areas eventually turned to necrotic lesions. Light microscopy revealed that the disease was caused by the anamorph stage of a powdery mildew fungus. Mycelium is predominantly endophytic with the presence of conidiophores emerging through leaf stomata. Conidiophores were simple or branched one or two times at random positions, 55 to 140 × 4.5 to 6 μm, producing conidia singly, and followed by two to three straight cells. Primary conidia were pyriform (68.9 × 18.5 μm) with a tapering end while secondary conidia were more cylindrical (59.1 × 18.0 μm). Mature conidia were hyaline, without distinct fibrosin bodies, and with angular/reticulated wrinkling of the outer walls. On the basis of these characteristics, the causal agent was identified as Oidiopsis taurica (1,3). The teleomorphic stage of the fungus was not observed. Pathogenicity tests were performed by inoculating three, potted, healthy C. spinosa plants with a fresh conidial suspension collected from powdery mildew colonies found on the infected plants (1 × 104 conidia/ml) under the same field conditions. After 15 to 17 days, symptoms and signs of powdery mildew developed on the foliage of inoculated plants. Herbarium specimens of C. spinosa leaves infected with O. taurica were deposited at the Herbarium of Botany Department (SCU), Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Egypt. To our knowledge, this is the first record of a powdery mildew disease on C. spinosa in Egypt. Recently, Leveillula taurica, the teleomorph stage of O. taurica, was reported from C. spinosa in Turkey (2). References: (1) U. Braun. Beih. Nova Hedwigia 89:1, 1987. (2) H. Kavak. Plant Pathol. 53:809, 2004. (3) J. Palti. Bot. Rev. 54:423, 1988.

scholarly journals Disruption of barley immunity to powdery mildew by an in-frame Lys-Leu deletion in the essential protein SGT1

Genetics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 217 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony V E Chapman ◽  
Matthew Hunt ◽  
Priyanka Surana ◽  
Valeria Velásquez-Zapata ◽  
Weihui Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
Fungal Pathogens ◽  
Novel Mutation ◽  
Exome Capture ◽  
Resistance Locus ◽  
Hordeum Vulgare L ◽  
Powdery Mildew Fungus ◽  
Pathogen Effectors ◽  
Cell Processes ◽  
Disease Resistances

Abstract Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Mla (Mildew resistance locus a) and its nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich-repeat receptor (NLR) orthologs protect many cereal crops from diseases caused by fungal pathogens. However, large segments of the Mla pathway and its mechanisms remain unknown. To further characterize the molecular interactions required for NLR-based immunity, we used fast-neutron mutagenesis to screen for plants compromised in MLA-mediated response to the powdery mildew fungus, Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei. One variant, m11526, contained a novel mutation, designated rar3 (required for Mla6 resistance3), that abolishes race-specific resistance conditioned by the Mla6, Mla7, and Mla12 alleles, but does not compromise immunity mediated by Mla1, Mla9, Mla10, and Mla13. This is analogous to, but unique from, the differential requirement of Mla alleles for the co-chaperone Rar1 (required for Mla12 resistance1). We used bulked-segregant-exome capture and fine mapping to delineate the causal mutation to an in-frame Lys-Leu deletion within the SGS domain of SGT1 (Suppressor of G-two allele of Skp1, Sgt1ΔKL308–309), the structural region that interacts with MLA proteins. In nature, mutations to Sgt1 usually cause lethal phenotypes, but here we pinpoint a unique modification that delineates its requirement for some disease resistances, while unaffecting others as well as normal cell processes. Moreover, the data indicate that the requirement of SGT1 for resistance signaling by NLRs can be delimited to single sites on the protein. Further study could distinguish the regions by which pathogen effectors and host proteins interact with SGT1, facilitating precise editing of effector incompatible variants.

scholarly journals Powdery Mildew Fungus on Cucurbits in the Transvaal Province of South Africa

Nature ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 209 (5026) ◽  
pp. 938-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. M. A. GORTER
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
Powdery Mildew Fungus

scholarly journals Erysiphe trifolii Causing Powdery Mildew of Lentil (Lens culinaris)

Plant Disease ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 93 (8) ◽  
pp. 797-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renuka N. Attanayake ◽  
Dean A. Glawe ◽  
Frank M. Dugan ◽  
Weidong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
The United States ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Grain Legumes ◽  
Its Sequences ◽  
Powdery Mildew Fungus ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Soybean Genotypes ◽  
Erysiphe Trifolii

The taxonomy of the powdery mildew fungus infecting lentil in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the United States was investigated on the basis of morphology and rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences. Anamorphic characters were in close agreement with descriptions of Erysiphe trifolii. However, teleomorphs formed chasmothecial appendages with highly branched apices, whereas E. trifolii has been described as producing flexuous or sometimes loosely branched appendages. Branched appendages have been described in Erysiphe diffusa, a fungus reported from species of Lens, Glycine, and Sophora, raising the possibility that the PNW fungus could be E. diffusa. Examination of morphological characters of an authentic specimen of E. trifolii from Austria determined that it included chasmothecial appendages resembling those seen in PNW specimens. Furthermore, ITS sequences from five powdery mildew samples collected from lentils in PNW greenhouses and fields from 2006 to 2008 were identical to one another, and exhibited higher similarity to sequences of E. trifolii (99%) than to those of any other Erysiphe spp. available in GenBank. Parsimony analysis grouped the lentil powdery mildew into a clade with Erysiphe baeumleri, E. trifolii, and E. trifolii–like Oidium sp., but indicated a more distant relationship to E. diffusa. In greenhouse inoculation studies, the lentil powdery mildew fungus did not infect soybean genotypes known to be susceptible to E. diffusa. The pathogenicity of E. trifolii on lentil was confirmed using modified Koch's postulates. This is the first report of E. trifolii infecting lentil. E. diffusa and E. trifolii have different host ranges, so the discovery of E. trifolii on lentil has implications both for determining species of powdery mildews on cool-season grain legumes, and in disease management.

scholarly journals BAX INHIBITOR-1 Is Required for Full Susceptibility of Barley to Powdery Mildew

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 1217-1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Eichmann ◽  
Melanie Bischof ◽  
Corina Weis ◽  
Jane Shaw ◽  
Christophe Lacomme ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
Gene Silencing ◽  
Defense Responses ◽  
Negative Control ◽  
Cellular Level ◽  
Virus Induced Gene Silencing ◽  
Powdery Mildew Fungus ◽  
Basal Resistance ◽  
Enhanced Resistance

BAX INHIBITOR-1 (BI-1) is one of the few proteins known to have cross-kingdom conserved functions in negative control of programmed cell death. Additionally, barley BI-1 (HvBI-1) suppresses defense responses and basal resistance to the powdery mildew fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei and enhances resistance to cell death–provoking fungi when overexpressed in barley. Downregulation of HvBI-1 by transient-induced gene silencing or virus-induced gene silencing limited susceptibility to B. graminis f. sp. hordei, suggesting that HvBI-1 is a susceptibility factor toward powdery mildew. Transient silencing of BI-1 did not limit supersusceptibility induced by overexpression of MLO. Transgenic barley plants harboring an HvBI-1 RNA interference (RNAi) construct displayed lower levels of HvBI-1 transcripts and were less susceptible to powdery mildew than wild-type plants. At the cellular level, HvBI-1 RNAi plants had enhanced resistance to penetration by B. graminis f. sp. hordei. These data support a function of BI-1 in modulating cell-wall-associated defense and in establishing full compatibility of B. graminis f. sp. hordei with barley.

scholarly journals Ampelomyces strains isolated from diverse powdery mildew hosts in Japan: Their phylogeny and mycoparasitic activity, including timing and quantifying mycoparasitism of Pseudoidium neolycopersici on tomato

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251444
Author(s):  
Márk Z. Németh ◽  
Yuusaku Mizuno ◽  
Hiroki Kobayashi ◽  
Diána Seress ◽  
Naruki Shishido ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Post Inoculation ◽  
Powdery Mildew Fungus ◽  
Rdna Its ◽  
Pseudoidium Neolycopersici ◽  
Tomato Powdery Mildew ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer Rdna ◽  
Complete Collapse

A total of 26 Ampelomyces strains were isolated from mycelia of six different powdery mildew species that naturally infected their host plants in Japan. These were characterized based on morphological characteristics and sequences of ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (rDNA-ITS) regions and actin gene (ACT) fragments. Collected strains represented six different genotypes and were accommodated in three different clades of the genus Ampelomyces. Morphology of the strains agreed with that of other Ampelomyces strains, but none of the examined characters were associated with any groups identified in the genetic analysis. Five powdery mildew species were inoculated with eight selected Ampelomyces strains to study their mycoparasitic activity. In the inoculation experiments, all Ampelomyces strains successfully infected all tested powdery mildew species, and showed no significant differences in their mycoparasitic activity as determined by the number of Ampelomyces pycnidia developed in powdery mildew colonies. The mycoparasitic interaction between the eight selected Ampelomyces strains and the tomato powdery mildew fungus (Pseudoidium neolycopersici strain KTP-03) was studied experimentally in the laboratory using digital microscopic technologies. It was documented that the spores of the mycoparasites germinated on tomato leaves and their hyphae penetrated the hyphae of Ps. neolycopersici. Ampelomyces hyphae continued their growth internally, which initiated the atrophy of the powdery mildew conidiophores 5 days post inoculation (dpi); caused atrophy 6 dpi; and complete collapse of the parasitized conidiphores 7 dpi. Ampelomyces strains produced new intracellular pycnidia in Ps. neolycopersici conidiophores ca. 8–10 dpi, when Ps. neolycopersici hyphae were successfully destroyed by the mycoparasitic strain. Mature pycnidia released spores ca. 10–14 dpi, which became the sources of subsequent infections of the intact powdery mildew hyphae. Mature pycnidia contained each ca. 200 to 1,500 spores depending on the mycohost species and Ampelomyces strain. This is the first detailed analysis of Ampelomyces strains isolated in Japan, and the first timing and quantification of mycoparasitism of Ps. neolycopersici on tomato by phylogenetically diverse Ampelomyces strains using digital microscopic technologies. The developed model system is useful for future biocontrol and ecological studies on Ampelomyces mycoparasites.

scholarly journals Nesting and breeding attempts of Cecropis daurica (Laxmann, 1769) in Tunisia

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-191
Author(s):  
Mohsen Kalboussi
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Nest Entrance ◽  
Breeding Area ◽  
Northwest Africa ◽  
Nesting Sites ◽  
The Mediterranean

Abstract During fieldworks in 2019, a pair of Red-rumped Swallows (Cecropis daurica) were seen building their nest (June) and one of them brooding (August). The pair was still present in the area by the end of September, while all other swallows left this breeding area. In June 2020, the nest entrance was destroyed and the nest was occupied by a pair of Passer sp. Another nest of C. daurica was found in an abandoned building but was completely destroyed. This observation is the first record concerning an attempt and failure of nesting of the species in Tunisia. The nesting area of the Red-rumped Swallow is extended to the Mediterranean in southern Europe and to northwest Africa. The nesting sites are described, and the extension of the nesting area is discussed in this work.

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