Phytophthora cryptogea as a cause of root rot of raspberry in Australia; resistance of raspberry cultivars and control by fungicides

Phytophthora cryptogea was isolated from field plantings of the red raspberry cultivars Glen Clova, Canby and Willamette which showed wilting, dieback, stem lesions and root rotting. Pathogenicity of P. cryptogea to raspberry was demonstrated in glasshouse experiments. Twelve cultivars of raspberry were screened for resistance to the disease by growing them in artificially infested soil. Glen Clova and Canby were highly susceptible whilst Chilcotin, Nootka, Haida and Puyallup were resistant. Soil treatments with either metalaxyl, phosphorous acid or fosetyl aluminium controlled the disease. This is the first record of a phytophthora root rot of raspberry in Australia, and the first demonstrating the pathogenicity of P. cryptogea to raspberry.     

Distribution of pathotypes with regard to host cultivars in French wheat leaf rust populations

ABSTRACT Isolates of wheat leaf rust collected from durum and bread wheat cultivars in France during 1999-2002 were analyzed for virulence on 18 Thatcher lines with single genes for leaf rust resistance (Lr genes). Sampling focused on the five most widely grown bread wheat cultivars (two susceptible and three resistant) to allow statistical comparison of diversity indexes between the cultivars. Leaf rust populations from durum and bread wheats were different. The diversity of the bread wheat leaf rust pathotypes, as measured by the Shannon index, ranged from 2.43 to 2.76 over the 4 years. Diversity for wheat leaf rust resistance was limited in the host since we postulated only seven seedling resistance genes in the 35 cultivars most widely grown during 1999-2002. Leaf rust populations were strongly differentiated for virulence within bread wheat cultivars, and diversity was higher on those that were resistant, mainly due to a more even distribution of virulence phenotypes than on susceptible cultivars. The pathogen population on the susceptible cv. Soissons was largely dominated by a single pathotype (073100), whereas all other pathotypes virulent on cv. Soissons either decreased in frequency or remained at a low frequency during the period studied. Several pathotypes including the most complex one were found only on resistant cultivars, even though most of them were virulent on the susceptible cv. Soissons. Specific interactions were necessary, but not always sufficient, to account for pathotype distribution and frequencies on the cultivars, suggesting that selection for virulence to host resistance genes is balanced by other selective forces including selection for aggressiveness.     

Disease severity and pathotype dynamics of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici in Denmark

Disease severity of wheat yellow rust, Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici , was analysed in Denmark from 1985 to 1999 in relation to the effects of weather on winter survival, distribution of host cultivars and pathotype dynamics. Below-average temperatures in January and February (midwinter) reduced yellow rust on the susceptible cv. Anja, and in three of four growth seasons following cold winters no yellow rust was observed on any cultivar under natural conditions. The agronomic consequences of dispersal of yellow rust urediniospores from external sources to Denmark, in a period during which large areas were planted with relatively few wheat cultivars, were demonstrated in several cases, most evidently when the Yr9 and Yr17 resistance genes became ineffective. Yr9 was overcome by the pathogen in a period with severe yellow rust epidemics on commercial cultivars, while virulence for Yr17 was first observed in a year with almost no yellow rust. In contrast, the resistance in cv. Kraka ( Yr1, CV ) was increasingly effective in controlling yellow rust, because pathotypes with the matching combination of virulence declined in the pathogen population. Pathotype frequency dynamics were thus influenced by selection forces within the country, and by selection forces in areas where spores were spread to Denmark from outside. The importance of a sufficient level of partial resistance in the wheat germplasm to prevent too much damage by yellow rust epidemics, in the event that the resistance genes are overcome by the pathogen population, is emphasized.     

A greenhouse screening technique to assess rust resistance in sorghum∗

Abstract

Studies were conducted to determine the influence of plant growth stage, inoculum density, temperature, and relative humidity (RH) on development of rust (Puccinia pupurea) in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). Rust development was maximum (>80% severity), when plants of a susceptible sorghum genotype (IS 18420) were inoculated at the four‐ to five‐leaf stage with an inoculum concentration of 4 × 10⁶ urediniospores per ml and incubated at 20–25°C under high RH (>90%) for 24 h. Disease severity (percentage leaf area covered with rust pustules) scores were taken 2 weeks after inoculation. Using this technique, 29 sorghum genotypes were screened for rust resistance in a greenhouse. This technique proved effective In discerning resistant and susceptible genotypes, and IS 3979, ICSH 110, ICSH 86647 and ICSH 871035 were identified resistant (<20% rust severity) compared with a susceptible control IS 18420 (90% rust severity). This technique is simple and rapid, and can be used effectively and economically to screen, on a large scale, germplasm lines and breeding populations in the greenhouse.     

小麦锈菌夏孢子经盐酸处理后的形态观察

为了快速区分小麦条锈菌、叶锈菌和秆锈菌,用不同浓度的盐酸处理3种小麦锈菌的新鲜夏孢子和在4 ℃冰箱内保存4个月以上的锈菌夏孢子,在显微镜下观察夏孢子形态以及原生质体变化。结果表明, 24.5%、28.5%、32.5%、36.5%4种浓度的盐酸处理条锈菌夏孢子后其原生质体均浓缩成多个分散的小团。而同样方法处理叶锈菌和秆锈菌新鲜菌种时其原生质体浓缩成一个大团或多个小团,浓缩成一个大团的比例随盐酸浓度的增大而提高;用不同浓度盐酸处理保存4个月以上的2种小麦锈菌时,95%以上的夏孢子原生质体浓缩成多个分散的小团,少数（不超过5%）的夏孢子原生质体浓缩成一个大团。研究还发现叶锈菌和秆锈菌夏孢子活力、盐酸浓度等对夏孢子原生质体浓缩状况有很大影响,且与病菌生理小种有一定的关系。因此,锈菌夏孢子经36.5%浓盐酸处理后的原生质体浓缩状况只能作为小麦锈病田间快速诊断检测的辅助手段,不能作为锈病种类鉴别的唯一标准,必须结合病害症状特征、孢子形态以及分子生物学方法等进行综合判别。     

Occurrence and distribution of Raspberry bushy dwarf virus in commercial Rubus plantations in England and Wales

Serological surveys for Raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) made between 1995 and 1997 and covering ≈ 10% of the commercial farms growing Rubus (red raspberry and hybrid berries) in England and Wales showed that this virus was present on approximately one-quarter of all farms and in approximately one-sixth of all plots tested. RBDV was found in all of the four main raspberry cultivars being grown at that time (Autumn Bliss, Glen Moy, Glen Prosen and Leo), in Loganberry and in Tayberry. Fifteen RBDV genotypes (including two that appeared to be mixed) were identified using RT-PCR/RFLPs, but the majority of genotypes were found only rarely. Of the RBDV isolates tested, two genotypes each comprised 12·5% and another 46·4%. None of the three most common genotypes was associated solely with single Rubus cultivars and vice versa . It is suggested that two separate outbreaks of RBDV are occurring in England and Wales. One outbreak comprises the most frequent genotype combined with one of the moderately frequent genotypes; this outbreak is largely confined to the main growing areas and is either spreading between farms or coming from multiple local sources. Circumstantial evidence suggests that these isolates (and hence this first outbreak) are of the RB pathotype. The second outbreak consists of the other moderately frequent genotype and those genotypes which are less common. These genotypes appear to be more scattered across England and Wales and seem more likely to be coming from local sources and not to be spreading naturally between commercial farms.     

Effects of bean rust (Uromyces appendiculatus) epidemics on host dynamics of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)

Epidemics of bean rust ( Uromyces appendiculatus ) and their effects on host dynamics of common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) were studied in three controlled greenhouse experiments, with and without fungicide sprays, on two susceptible bean cultivars, Dufrix and Duplika. Bean plants were artificially inoculated with a suspension of 10⁵ U. appendiculatus urediniospores mL⁻¹ water and temporal disease progress, as well as host growth dynamics (leaf size and defoliation), were monitored on a leaflet basis in comparison with non-inoculated plants, which were sprayed with deionized water. Progress curves of bean rust, expressed as the proportion of leaf area occupied by pustules (uredinia), or as the proportion occupied by total lesion area (= halo areas + pustule area), were well described by logistic functions with maximum disease levels clearly lower than 1. Bean rust epidemics substantially affected host growth by reducing the total leaf area formed by 17·4–35·6% and 35·3–46·2% compared with healthy plants for cvs Dufrix and Duplika, respectively. Fungicide sprays mitigated the negative effect of bean rust, leading to a gain in leaf area of 17–21% compared with unsprayed plants in both cultivars in two experiments, while in another experiment, disease control had no effect in Dufrix, but a clear effect in Duplika. In addition to the growth depression, bean rust also led to pronounced losses of leaf area as a result of reduced leaf size (leaf shrivelling) and accelerated defoliation.     

临麦系列春小麦品种抗条锈性分析

小麦条锈病是发生于甘肃省临夏州小麦生产上的最主要病害,种植抗病品种是防治该病最经济有效且有利于保护环境的措施。作者于2013年在甘肃省农业科学院植物保护研究所兰州低温温室和甘谷试验站进行了苗期、成株期分小种接种鉴定,并于2010-2014年对临麦系列春小麦品种‘临麦32号’~‘临麦36号’在甘肃省不同生态区的8个试验点进行成株期抗条锈性分析,结果表明:春小麦品种‘临麦32号’苗期对所有供试菌系均表现感病,成株期对CYR29和CYR32表现中抗-中感;‘临麦33号’除对CYR29苗期表现免疫、成株期表现中抗-中感外,对其余供试菌系均表现感病。对自然诱发的条锈病,两品种也表现感病;‘临麦34号’和‘临麦36号’除对新菌系G22-9、G22-14表现感病外,对其余菌系表现抗病,但自2013年开始两品种在田间也表现感病;‘临麦35号’全生育期对接种及自然诱发的条锈菌均表现抗病。苗期选用24个国内外供试条锈菌单孢菌系进行基因推导分析,发现供试临麦系品种抗性谱与已知基因载体品种的抗性谱均不一致,初步推测供试临麦系品种含有未知抗条锈基因。     

Expression of adult plant resistance and its effect on the development of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici in some Australian wheat cultivars

The onset of adult plant resistance (APR) to Puccinia striiformis was examined in seven Australian wheat cultivars under field conditions and in 14 cultivars under controlled environmental conditions. In most cultivars under field conditions the percentage leaf area affected by stripe rust at mid-tillering (GS 22–26; third leaf) was significantly less ( P < 0.05) than on the more susceptible cultivar Teal. The expression of APR was more conspicuous during tillering to node formation; at these growth stages chlorosis and/or necrosis developed in association with rust colonies on the most resistant cultivars. Under controlled conditions, the primary leaves of all cultivars except Olympic and Flinders displayed some resistance when compared with Teal (lower infection types, longer latent periods and/or less percentage leaf area affected). Studies on the spread of stripe rust from infection foci established in selected cultivars in the field indicated that the resistance detected at early growth stages in Suneca in controlled environmental studies also appeared to be effective in the field.     

Role of phenology in host susceptibility and within-plant spread of stem rust during reproductive development of perennial ryegrass

ABSTRACT Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) was inoculated with urediniospores of Puccinia graminis subsp. graminicola at four stages of reproductive tiller development. All developmental stages, from expansion of the penultimate leaf through anthesis, were equally susceptible to infection measured as number of pustules per total inoculated plant area. However, within each stage from boot through anthesis, there was a negative correlation of susceptibility with age of host tissue, the highest disease severities occurring on expanding or newly expanded leaves or inflorescences. Within-plant spread of the disease from primary lesions on the flag leaf sheath to the elongating stem of the inflorescence was observed and verified. A single primary infection on the leaf sheath can produce an elongated strip of contiguous secondary infections on the inflorescence head and stem, which is a characteristic sign of stem rust. Position and timing of eruption of the secondary pustules on the stem can be explained by assuming that infections occur on the stem slightly distal to the overlying sheath lesion and erupt one latent period later, by which time tiller elongation has moved the stem infection site upward. Repeated infections occur as the stem elongates, producing contiguous lesions. Expansion rate and final lesion area on the stem were correlated with elongation rate of the inflorescence. Microscopic observation of plant tissue sections revealed that the fungus sporulates on the inner surface of the sheath, and germinating urediniospores are attached to the stem surface under the covering sheath starting 1 to 2 cm distal to the location of the sheath infection site.     

Cane spot (Elsinoë veneta) in red raspberry: infection periods and fungicidal control

Dichlofluanid controlled cane spot ( Elsinoë veneta ) of raspberry cv. Mailing Jewel when applied before harvest in a four-spray programme, but carbendazim, vinclozolin and iprodione were ineffective. Lesions predominated in the fruit-bearing region of canes in a zone 46-120 cm above soil level. Bait plants exposed for periods of 2 weeks in two infected plantations in north-east Scotland developed lesions, after incubation for 4-6 weeks, only on internodes which were the youngest at the time of exposure. Infection occurred in all periods from mid-April to late July. The infection of bait plants was related to the distribution of lesions on canes in the spray trial.
An isolate of E. veneta obtained from a plantation sprayed with carbendazim and vinclozolin was resistant when tested in vitro to carbendazim, benomyl and thiophanate-methyl. This isolate and another MBC-sensitive strain were both relatively insensitive to the dicarboximide fungicides iprodione and vinclozolin.     

Leaf Rust on Aegilops speltoides Caused by a New Forma Specialis of Puccinia triticina

ABSTRACT A leaf rust attacking Aegilops speltoides in its natural habitat is reported for the first time. It was found in two locations in northern and central Israel. The two collections from A. speltoides resemble wheat leaf rust, Puccinia triticina, in most spore dimensions, in the morphology of the substomatal vesicle of the urediniospore, and in DNA content in pycniospore nuclei. Similarly to P. triticina isolates from wheat, isolates taken from A. speltoides are compatible with Thalictrum speciosissimum as an aecial host and they are crossed easily with wheat leaf rust isolates. However, isolates from A. speltoides differ from wheat leaf rust in their telial host range. They are avirulent to cultivated wheat cultivars, but attack hundreds of A. speltoides accessions that were immune to wheat leaf rust. This distinct host preference justifies delineation of the newly found leaf rust as a forma specialis (f. sp. speltoides) within P. triticina.     

UV-B辐射增强对小麦条锈病影响的初步探讨

在温室条件下用铭贤169、吨半麦、咸农4号3个小麦品种,研究了接种条锈菌条中32号小种前后UV-B辐射增强对小麦条锈病的影响。结果表明,接种前对小麦照射UV-B增强了品种铭贤169和吨半麦的病情指数,但对咸农4号的病情指数没有影响。接种后照射UV-B对品种咸农4号、铭贤169和吨半麦的病情指数均无显著影响,但却减少了条锈菌在品种铭贤169和吨半麦上的产孢期与产孢量。     

78个重要小麦品种苗期抗条锈性的聚类分析

选用20个具有不同毒性谱的条锈菌菌系,对78个重要小麦品种材料进行了苗期接种鉴定,以得到的数据为基础,用类平均法对供试小麦品种的抗条锈性进行了聚类分析。鄂恩1号等19个品种被聚在一类,它们具有Yr9或与之相似的抗性;碧玛1号等10个品种被聚在一类,它们具有Yr1或与之相似的抗性;兰天5号等9个品种聚为一类,它们可抗所有供试菌系或仅对1～2个菌系感病;还有些品种被分别聚合为几小类。获知了一批具有未知抗条锈基因或基因组合的重要小麦品种的抗性特点,本结果可为小麦生产品种的合理布局与利用、抗锈育种中抗源的选用以及生产品种抗性变异预测提供重要依据。     

Melampsora larici-populina, the main rust pathogen, causes loss in biomass production of black cottonwood plantations in the south of China

Epidemic outbreaks of rust disease have been observed in most of the black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) plantations in the south of China in recent years. However, the exact pathogens that cause rust disease in this area remain largely unknown. In this study we collected rust fungi from black cottonwood plantations at four different places in the south of China. Examination of these fungi by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and light microscopy (LM) revealed that the morphological characteristics of urediniospores for all the collected fungi were very close to that of Melampsora larici-populina. Using species-specific primers, these pathogens were confirmed to be M. larici-populina. In a survey on the resistance to rust disease for 88 genotypes of black cottonwood, nine potential candidate genotypes were detected that may be free from infection of rust pathogen. The results of this study provide essential information for breeding new rust-resistant black cottonwood cultivars.     

Disease cycle of Austropuccinia psidii on Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus obliqua leaves of different rust response phenotypes

Myrtle rust poses a significant biosecurity threat to Australia with potential for long-term damaging impacts on native flora and plant industries. This study describes the disease cycle of Austropuccinia psidii, the myrtle rust pathogen, in Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus obliqua, two commercially and ecologically important species from different subgenera of Eucalyptus. Ontogeny and morphology of infection structures of A. psidii on plants of both Eucalyptus species with different rust response phenotypes, i.e. completely resistant, hypersensitive and highly susceptible, were investigated. Plants were inoculated with single-uredinium-derived urediniospores and examined by scanning electron microscopy. No differences between rust response phenotypes were observed in germination of urediniospores, formation of appressoria or length of germ tubes. The growth of germ tubes had no affinity towards stomata of either species. Histological observations indicated direct penetration by infection pegs through the leaf cuticle and no penetration beyond the epidermis on rust-resistant E. obliqua. Eucalyptus obliqua plants that were identified as susceptible to A. psidii at 3- and 6-months-old showed no disease when reinoculated with A. psidii at 12-months-old; this indicated possible early acquisition of adult plant resistance to A. psidii in this species. In the susceptible phenotype of E. globulus rust inoculation led to rapid colonization of leaf parenchyma cells with the disease cycle completed within 10 days. These findings provide valuable insights into host–pathogen interactions in the Eucalyptus–A. psidii pathosystem, which might be useful for the development of effective rust control strategies across Eucalyptus subgenera.     

Effect of crown rust on regrowth, competitive ability and nutritional quality of perennial and Italian ryegrasses

Infection of susceptible cultivars of perennial (Lolium perenne) and Italian (Lolium multiflorum) ryegrasses with crown rust (Puccinia coronata) reduced yield measured 6 weeks after infection and at two regrowth cuts. In perennial, but not Italian, ryegrass, rust infection of mixed swards of a resistant and a susceptible cultivar reduced the contribution to yield made by the susceptible cultivar and increased that of the resistant cultivar. This effect persisted for three regrowth cuts. The trend in effect on the number of tillers, but not plant height, was similar.
Infection increased leaf protein in susceptible perennial ryegrass but had little effect in Italian ryegrass. In both species, rust reduced water-soluble carbohydrate and the predicted digestibility of susceptible and resistant cultivars, but had no effect on quality of regrowth.     

Effect of two-component cultivar mixtures and yellow rust on yield and yield components of wheat

Four winter wheat ( Triticum aestivum ) cultivars and three two-component cultivar mixtures were planted in a replacement series both inoculated with or protected from yellow rust ( Puccinia striiformis ) in three environments. Each cultivar was susceptible to one or two of the rust races used. Mixtures yielded, on average, 7 and 4% more than their component pure stand means under inoculated and rust-free conditions, respectively. Though all yield components were affected by yellow rust, seed weight was the component that was most consistently influenced. The component genotypes within mixtures varied considerably with respect to yield, and the yield of the same component cultivar included in different mixtures sometimes differed significantly. The correlation between yellow rust severity/tiller and grain yield/tiller in mixture differed among cultivars and depended on their companion cultivar. Variance component analysis indicated that yellow rust was the most important experimental variable influencing grain yield. There was no relationship between yield of the cultivars in pure stands and their yields or competitive abilities in mixture. Disease did not change the competitive ranking of cultivars in mixture. Mixtures with complementary, negative, and overcompensatory interactions were identified. On average, mixtures showed no greater yield stability than did pure stands.     

三种粉锈宁络合物防治小麦锈病研究

三种粉锈宁络合物,即保丰宁、植保宁和粉锈铜对小麦锈病防病保产效果显著,用药量低、持效期长,使用安全,而且在田间试验与粉锈宁用药量相同的情况下,其效果接近。据室内测定,植保宁具有较强的内吸传导性能,但基本上是向上传导;具有较强的治疗和铲除作用,但对夏孢子萌发的影响很弱。据田间试验,用药量与品种感病性关系密切,随着小麦品种感病性提高,用药量应适当增加,才能控制锈病为害;施药次数主要取决于施药时小麦所处的生育期,施药1次的适期在病叶率5％—10％时、小麦处于旗叶伸长至抽穗期。     

基因枪法导入GUS基因获得小麦条锈菌突变体

 采用基因枪转化法用带有β-葡糖醛酸酶(GUS)报告基因的质粒pGUS6L20转化小麦条锈菌,建立了优化的转化体系;在转化当代的条锈菌中得到了GUS基因瞬时表达的菌株;连续继代转接培养后,在转化后第1代(T1)和第2代(T2)条锈菌中检测到了GUS基因稳定表达的菌株;利用GUS报告基因和毒性标记相结合的方法,经过3代筛选鉴定,在小麦条锈菌中国鉴别寄主尤皮Ⅱ号和抗引655上,各获得1个稳定的毒性突变体,经PCR及PCR-southern blot证实外源片段已整合到毒性突变菌株的基因组中。该研究表明基因枪转化法是获得条锈菌毒性突变体的有效方法。