Molecular and biochemical characterization of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides isolates resistant to azoxystrobin from grape in China

Anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, is one of the most important diseases in grape-growing regions worldwide. In Jiangsu Province of China, quinone-outside inhibitor fungicides (QoIs) have been extensively sprayed as disease control for more than 10 years. A spore germination assay of 64 isolates obtained from 32 commercial vineyards was used to assess isolate sensitivity to azoxystrobin and 62 were found to be resistant to azoxystrobin. The biological fitness of QoI-resistant (QoI^R) isolates was significantly lower than the sensitive isolates (QoI^S) in terms of mycelial growth and conidiation. Nucleotide sequence alignment of CgCytb genes from the QoI^R and QoI^S isolates revealed that two point mutations (F129L and G143A) are involved in the QoI resistance. Isolates with the G143A mutation expressed high resistance to azoxystrobin, whereas isolates carrying the F129L mutation exhibited moderate resistance. Positive cross-resistance was observed between azoxystrobin and kersoxim-methyl, pyraclostrobin, or benzothiostrobin, but not with fluazinam. This study provides important information for management of QoI^R populations of C. gloeosporioides in the field.     

Genetic Diversity in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides from Stylosanthes spp. at Centers of Origin and Utilization

ABSTRACT Using molecular markers, this work compares the genetic diversity in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides infecting species of the tropical forage legume Stylosanthes at the center of origin in Brazil and Colombia with that of Australia, China, and India, where Stylosanthes spp. have been introduced for commercial use. There was extensive diversity in the pathogen population from Brazil, Colombia, China, and India. The Australian pathogen population was least diverse probably due to its geographical isolation and effective quarantine. The extensive diversity in China and India means that threats from exotic pathogen races to Stylosanthes pastures can potentially come from countries outside the South American center of origin. In Brazil and India, both with native Stylosanthes populations, a high level of genetic differentiation in the pathogen population was associated with sites where native or naturalized host population was widely distributed. There was limited genetic diversity at germplasm evaluation sites, with a large proportion of isolates having identical haplotypes. This contrasts recent pathogenicity results for 78 of the Brazilian isolates that show hot spots of complex races are more common around research stations where host germplasm are tested, but few are found at sites containing wild host populations. For a pathogen in which the same races arise convergently from different genetic backgrounds, this study highlights the importance of using both virulence and selectively neutral markers to understand pathogen population structure.     

Quantitatively expressed resistance to anthracnose (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides) in Stylosanthes scabra

Nineteen accessions of Stylosanthes scabra that had low terminal severities of anthracnose in the field were evaluated for their response in the glasshouse using four isolates representing three different races of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Accessions could be allocated to one of three groups: one showed a higher disease severity after inoculation with isolate UQ14 compared to the other isolates; the second showed a higher severity after inoculation with isolates WRS32 and/or WRS20 compared to isolates SR4 and UQ14, and the third group showed moderate to low disease severities following inoculation with all four isolates. Based on reduced disease severity and compatible infection types, a set of six accessions was selected from the three groups for further testing, two of which showed no significant difference in their response to the four isolates. Two components of resistance, incubation period and infection efficiency were studied in the selected accessions. Of these, incubation period appeared unrelated to the expression of resistance. Criteria for identifying this form of quantitatively expressed resistance are discussed.     

Quantitative relationships between Colletotrichum gloeosporioides infection of Stylosanthes scabra and weather under field conditions

In a field study over three successive years (1990-92), quantitative relationships were established between infection by the anthracnose pathogen Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and weather. In order to detect successful spread and infection, groups of healthy seedlings of the tropical pasture legume Stylosanthes scabra were exposed to natural inoculum for 7 h (daytime), 17 h (overnight), 24 h and 48 h and then incubated in environments with different levels of relative humidity (r.h). Infection was generally associated with rainfall, hours r.h. >95% and mean hourly r.h. in the 1990 and 1992 seasons with average rainfall. Inoculum availability was an important determinant of the number of infections in the dry 1991 season. Quantitative relationships between infection and weather conditions for the exposure periods in the three seasons were established using multiple regression analysis. A regression equation containing hours of r.h. >95%, mean hourly r.h. and temperature was developed from a combined analysis of the 48-h exposure data from 1990 and 1992. A parallelism test showed that the regression equation was equally applicable to infection data in each of the two years.     

Genetic Diversity in South American Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Isolates from Stylosanthes guianensis, a Tropical Forage Legume

The degree of genetic diversity of 127 Colletotrichum gloeosporioides isolates from Stylosanthes guianensis genotypes in South America was measured at the molecular level by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) with nine arbitrary primers of 10 bases, and by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) with a non-LTR (long terminal repeats) retrotransposon DNA sequence. The RAPD products revealed scorable polymorphism among the isolates, and a total of 80 band positions were scored. Sixty-three of the 127 isolates were clustered into 13 distinct lineages usually correlating with geographic origin. Where isolates from various regions were clustered together, most had identical host genotype origin. The pathogen population sampled from Carimagua, Colombia, a long-time Stylosanthes breeding and selection site, with a savanna ecosystem, was highly diverse. A set of 12 S. guianensis genotype differentials was used to characterize pathogenic variability of 104 isolates and their virulence patterns were grouped into 57 pathotypes. However, when they were tested on four Australian differentials, they grouped into 11 pathotypes. As shown in previous studies, no strict correlations existed between genetic diversity measured by RAPD or RFLP, and pathotype defined by pathogenicity pattern on the differentials. Southern blot analysis of the 127 isolates revealed 23 hybridizing fragments, resulting in 41 fingerprint patterns among the 127 isolates. Relationships between RFLP and RAPD variables were examined using Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient, which showed that the two measures of genotypic variation are in agreement.     

红掌胶胞炭疽菌的分子检测

 胶胞炭疽菌是引起红掌炭疽病的病原菌。根据GenBank中炭疽属不同种的ITS序列差异,设计了胶胞炭疽菌的特异性引物E1/E2,由此建立的PCR检测体系可以从38个胶胞炭疽菌菌株中扩增得到329 bp的特异性条带,而扩增其它近似或相关菌株时没有相应的特异性条带。该检测体系对胶胞炭疽菌基因组DNA的扩增灵敏度达到10 pg。将引物E1/E2与ITS区通用引物进行套式PCR扩增后,检测灵敏度至少提高10 000倍。当土中胶胞炭疽菌分生孢子达到200个/g土时可检测出。进一步利用此检测体系对携带病原菌的灌溉水、发病组织进行检测,均能快速稳定地检测出病原菌。     

Species from the Colletotrichum acutatum,Colletotrichum boninense and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complexes associated with tree tomato and mango crops in Colombia

Colletotrichum species cause typical anthracnose symptoms in tree tomato and mango. To characterize species of Colletotrichum in these two crops in Colombia, 91 isolates were collected from several localities. Phylogenetic analyses using nuclear gene sequencing of the ITS region and the glyceraldehyde 3‐phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) gene allowed the identification of three groups: acutatum, gloeosporioides and boninense. These three groups were further confirmed using two additional genomic regions (chitin synthase 1 and actin) for 30 isolates representative of the three previously identified complexes and one genomic region (ApMat) for the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides complex strains. The entire approach permitted a robust strain identification that allowed phylogenetic species recognition (PSR) based on the identification of well‐supported monophyletic clades and concordance between individual and multilocus phylogenies. Morphological and physiological assays were also conducted. Isolates that were morphologically identified as C. gloeosporioides showed high phenotypic diversity. Pathogenicity data revealed a considerable degree of host preference.     

Molecular identification of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides causing yam anthracnose in Nigeria

Four forms of Colletotrichum representing three distinct virulence phenotypes were found associated with foliar anthracnose of yam in Nigeria: the highly virulent (= severity of disease) slow-growing grey (SGG); the moderately virulent fast-growing salmon (FGS); the weakly virulent fast-growing grey (FGG); and the moderately virulent fast-growing olive (FGO) morphotype. Isolates of the four forms were identified as C. gloeosporioides , based on morphology. The reaction of monoconidial cultures on casein hydrolysis medium (CHM), PCR-RFLP and sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal DNA (ITS1-5·8S-ITS2) were used to establish the identity of the yam anthracnose pathogen(s). All yam isolates were distinguished from C. acutatum by the absence of protease activity on CHM. On ITS PCR and enzymatic digestion of PCR products, all FGS, FGO and SGG isolates produced RFLP patterns identical to those of C. gloeosporioides reference isolates, while FGG isolates revealed unique ITS RFLP banding patterns. Sequence analysis of the ITS1 region and of the entire ITS region revealed that SGG, FGS and FGO isolates were highly similar (98–99% nucleotide identity) and showed 97–100% identity to C. gloeosporioides . Less than 93% similarity of these fungal isolates to reference C. acutatum and C. lindemuthianum isolates was observed. The molecular study confirmed that foliar anthracnose of yam is caused by C. gloeosporioides . While a high similarity was found among most C. gloeosporioides fungi from yam, isolates of the FGG form did not cluster with any previously described Colletotrichum species, and probably represent a distinct species.     

Pathogenic Variation in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Infecting Stylosanthes spp. in a Center of Diversity in Brazil

ABSTRACT Pathogenic variation in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides infecting species of the tropical pasture legume Stylosanthes at its center of diversity was determined from 296 isolates collected from wild host population and selected germ plasm of S. capitata, S. guianensis, S. scabra, and S. macrocephala in Brazil. A putative host differential set comprising 11 accessions was selected from a bioassay of 18 isolates on 19 host accessions using principal component analysis. A similar analysis of anthracnose severity data for a subset of 195 isolates on the 11 differentials indicated that an adequate summary of pathogenic variation could be obtained using only five of these differentials. Of the five differentials, S. seabrana 'Primar' was resistant and S. scabra 'Fitzroy' was susceptible to most isolates. A cluster analysis was used to determine eight natural race clusters using the 195 isolates. Linear discriminant functions were developed for eight race clusters using the 195 isolates as the training data set, and these were applied to classify a test data set of the remaining 101 isolates. All except 11 isolates of the test data set were classified into one of the eight race clusters. Over 10% of the 296 isolates were weakly pathogenic to all five differentials and another 40% were virulent on just one differential. The unclassified isolates represent six new races with unique virulence combinations, of which one isolate is virulent on all five differentials. The majority of isolates came from six field sites, and Shannon's index of diversity indicated considerable variation between sites. Pathogenic diversity was extensive at three sites where selected germ plasm were under evaluation, and complex race clusters and unclassified isolates representing new races were more prevalent at these sites compared with sites containing wild Stylosanthes populations.     

Genetic relationships among isolates of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides from Stylosanthes spp. in Africa and Australia using RAPD and ribosomal DNA markers

Thirty-three isolates of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides from various Stylosanthes species collected in Africa and Australia and associated with restricted (type A), extensive (type B) or nontypical anthracnose lesions (type C) were first compared by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis. A phylogenetic tree was constructed based on 118 reproducible polymorphic bands generated with 16 random primers, using the upgma method. Twenty-nine isolates were grouped in two main clusters, corresponding to types A and B, within which polymorphic subgroups were partially related to geographical origin. Strong similarities were observed among isolates of distant origin. Four isolates presented profiles completely different from the A and B types and were grouped in two additional clusters. To assess the phylogenetic relationship among isolates of various types and origins at the species level, the lnternal Transcribed Spacer region (ITS 1) of the ribosomal DNA was sequenced. Type A isolates and a restricted number of type B isolates selected in the RAPD clusters showed an homology of 99.4–100%. When compared with published sequence data, the isolates that were clustered separately in the phylogenetic tree, had the exact sequence of a C. gloeosporioides strain associated with the rotting of coffee berries, or of C. kahawae , the causal agent of coffee berry disease.     

不同油茶种和品种对炭疽病的抗性观察

在林间调查了广东省内栽培的高州油茶、广宁红花油茶和39个品种的普通油茶对油茶炭疽病的抗病性,并在室内研究了高州油茶、广宁红花油茶和9个品种的普通油茶叶片对炭疽病的抗病性。林间自然状态下调查结果表明,广宁红花油茶对炭疽病的抗病性最强,普通油茶‘粤韶77-1号’、‘铁城1号’和‘湘林1号’抗性中等,其他品种均表现为感病;室内测定结果表明,广宁红花油茶属于抗病种类,‘铁城1号’和‘粤韶77-1号’属于中度抗病品种,其他为感病品种。     

Identification and species status of the mango biotype of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in Ghana

Research work was carried out to identify and ascertain the species status of the mango biotype of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides infecting mangoes in Ghana. Forty five isolates of Colletotrichum species were collected from 12 districts in Ghana while five each were obtained from mango fruits from Florida, Mexico and Puerto Rico. The entire internal transcribed spacer region, partial beta-tubulin gene and partial glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene of isolates were sequenced and used in phylogenetic studies. The results of the sequence analysis of the first ribosomal transcribed spacer (ITS 1) region showed that 35 % of the isolates from Ghana and all the five isolates from Mexico were the mango biotype of C. gloeosporioides, while the others were not. Phylogenetic studies showed that the mango biotype of the pathogen was Colletotrichum asianum but not C. gloeosporioides as previously thought. However, the other isolates that were not the mango biotype were identified as Colletotrichum siamense and Colletotrichum species which had probably cross-infected mango from other fruit crops in the field.     

Anthracnose of Madagascar periwinkle caused by species belonging to the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex

Severe blight of stems was found on Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) in Shizuoka and Okinawa prefectures, Japan, in July 2003 and September 2004, respectively. Similar fungi were isolated from the diseased plants. The isolated fungi caused the disease after inoculation and subsequently were reisolated from diseased tissues. The fungi were identified as species closely related to C. siamense or C. tropicale according to sequences of the β-tubulin-2 gene, indicating that they belong to the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex. This is the first report specifying the genetic relationships of the pathogens of Madagascar periwinkle anthracnose in the complex.     

Pathogenicity of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides to carrot

Abstract

Colletotrichum gloeosporioides was identified as the causal agent of carrot umbel blight in Brazil. Pathogenicity was evaluated on carrot and other host plants, as well as compared with the pathogenicity of other C. gloeosporioides isolates on carrot. C. gloeosporioides isolated from carrot umbel was able to infect tomato plants and ripe fruits of tomato and sweet pepper, in addition to carrot umbels and seedlings. This appears to be the first report of C. gloeosporioides attacking carrots.     

越南进境人参果炭疽病病原菌的分离鉴定

2008年4月从广州出入境检验检疫局送检的越南进境人参果样品(报检号:P02297)中发现果实表面密布近圆形褐色病斑,病斑直径约为3mm,中央黄褐色,边缘深红褐色,多个病斑可愈合成片.室温下放置1周,病果即完全腐烂,全果果皮及果肉均转成褐色.采用组织分离培养法获得分离物,经对分离物培养性状与形态特征观察、致病性测定,并辅助于分子生物学检测,将病害鉴定为人参果炭疽病,病原菌为胶孢炭疽菌(Colletotrichum gloeosporioides).Blast分析表明从病原菌基因组中扩增到的1.8 kbp 18S rDNA 片段与胶孢炭疽菌18S rRNA基因同源率为99%.迄今为止人参果炭疽病在国内外均未见报道,这是我国首次从进境人参果中截获并检验鉴定该病害.     

Sensitivity of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex (CGSC) isolated from strawberry in Taiwan to benzimidazole and strobilurin

Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex (CGSC) is the major pathogen causing strawberry anthracnose in Taiwan. Benzimidazoles and strobilurins are common fungicides used to control strawberry anthracnose. A total of 108 CGSC isolates were collected from five major strawberry-producing areas in Taiwan. The half-maximal effective concentration (EC₅₀) values of most CGSC isolates for benomyl (59 isolates), carbendazim (70 isolates), and thiabendazole (63 isolates) were higher than 500 µg a.i./mL. Strobilurin tests showed that the EC₅₀ values of most CGSC isolates for azoxystrobin (66 isolates), kresoxim-methyl (42 isolates), and trifloxystrobin (56 isolates) were higher than 500 µg a.i./mL. However, most CGSC isolates were sensitive to pyraclostrobin at 100 µg a.i./mL. Fungicide tests indicated that CGSC isolates show multi-resistance to benzimidazoles and strobilurins. Benzimidazole-resistant isolates were associated with a point mutation in codon 198 of the β-tubulin gene, and strobilurin-resistant isolates did not correspond with mutation in the cyt b gene or alternative oxidase activity.     

7种龙舌兰属植物提取物对两种炭疽病病菌抑菌活性初探

采用菌丝生长速率法测定了7种龙舌兰属植物提取物对胶孢炭疽病病菌(Colletotrichum gloeosporioides)和香蕉炭疽病病菌(Calletotrichum musae)的抑菌活性。结果表明,在质量浓度10、5 mg/m L下处理72 h,7种龙舌兰属植物提取物对两种炭疽病病菌均有很强的抑菌活性。其中,H.11648、广西76416、有刺番麻和番麻对两种炭疽病病菌抑菌率均为100%,普通剑麻、粤西114和灰叶剑麻对两种炭疽病病菌抑菌率为77.78%~100%。毒力测定表明,有刺番麻对胶孢和香蕉炭疽病病菌抑菌效果最显著,有效中浓度(EC_(50))分别为0.027 7 mg/m L和0.048 2 mg/m L,其次是广西76416,有效中浓度(EC_(50))分别为0.093 4 mg/m L和0.240 9 mg/m L。     

纳米材料二氧化钛对胶孢炭疽菌的抑制作用

对纳米材料TiO2的性质及其对胶孢炭疽菌的抑制作用进行了研究。TiO2在190～240nm处有强的吸收峰。在短波光日光灯和蓝光下TiO2具有较强的抑菌作用，TiO2A对胶孢炭疽菌的菌丝生长、产孢量及孢子萌发抑制率分别为15．21％、54．68％、80．68％，TiO2 B为30．84％、39．70％、86．70％。TiO2 A和TiO2 B的最适抑菌浓度分别为0．5和0．4mg／ml。     

火把对柑桔炭疽病菌的室内毒力试验

采用菌丝生长速率法,用杀菌剂火把对柑桔炭疽病菌进行了室内毒力测定,测得火把对柑桔炭疽病的EC50值为0.8110μg/mL,EC98值为10.5435μg/mL,确定了其在室内有效抑菌浓度。本试验有利于指导进一步的室外药效试验以确定实际应用中的最佳施用浓度。