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Published on: April 28, 2010
Identification and Characterization of Three Monilinia Species from Plum in China
Liang-Fen Yin1, Shu-Ning Chen2, Guo-Kang Chen3
1College of Plant Science & Technology and the Experimental Teaching Center of Crop Science.
Abstract:
In total, 112 Monilinia spp. single-spore isolates were collected from plum fruit (Prunus salicina) symptomatic for brown rot disease from Yunnan, Hubei, and Zhejiang provinces and Chongqing municipality, China between 2012 and 2014. Three distinct colony morphologies (phenotypes) were observed on potato dextrose agar and two isolates per phenotype were selected for further analysis. Colony color, colony shape, conidia size, number of germ tubes per conidia, and pathogenicity on plum were investigated. The ribosomal internal transcribed spacer regions 1 and 2 as well as a polymerase chain reaction-based method that amplified fragments of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3PDH) and β-tubulin (TUB2) genes were used to identify the isolates to the species level. The three phenotypes were identified to be three different species: Monilinia fructicola, Monilia mumecola, and Monilia yunnanensis. Phylogenetic analysis based on G3PDH and TUB2 nucleotide sequences revealed that isolates within species clustered together regardless of host or geographical origin, suggesting that these factors did not play an important role for the evolutionary separation of the described species.
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