Fusarium branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina

In Argentina, highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) is grown in Tucumán, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires provinces. In the 2010 to 2011 cropping season, a new disease with 10% incidence was observed on the foliage of “Emerald” plants in Concordia, Entre Rios. Symptoms included acropetal blight and p...

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Autores principales: Wright, Eduardo Roberto, Rivera, Marta Carolina, Campanella, Eduardo Raúl, Farinon, Omar Marcelo, Berretta, Marcelo Facundo, Perez, Beatriz Alida
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Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/1091
http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/AJB/article-full-text-pdf/E7D89F949008
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author Wright, Eduardo Roberto
Rivera, Marta Carolina
Campanella, Eduardo Raúl
Farinon, Omar Marcelo
Berretta, Marcelo Facundo
Perez, Beatriz Alida
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Campanella, Eduardo Raúl
Farinon, Omar Marcelo
Perez, Beatriz Alida
Rivera, Marta Carolina
Wright, Eduardo Roberto
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Rivera, Marta Carolina
Campanella, Eduardo Raúl
Farinon, Omar Marcelo
Berretta, Marcelo Facundo
Perez, Beatriz Alida
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description In Argentina, highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) is grown in Tucumán, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires provinces. In the 2010 to 2011 cropping season, a new disease with 10% incidence was observed on the foliage of “Emerald” plants in Concordia, Entre Rios. Symptoms included acropetal blight and premature branch death. Leaves remained attached and showed tan to brown discoloration. A fungal species was isolated from diseased plant parts and identified as belonging to Fusarium section Gibbosum. Based on its growth and pigmentation on potato-dextrose-agar, and characters on carnation leaf-piece agar and Spezieller Nährstoffarmer agar, the strain was identified as Fusarium acuminatum. Additionally, the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of nuclear ribosomal genes were amplified by PCR, sequenced and the DNA sequence was compared with those in GenBank. The NCBI-Blastn search showed 100% identity of the DNA sequence with GenBank Accession No U85533 sequence for F. acuminatum. Pathogenicity was confirmed on wounded branches of potted blueberry plants. To our knowledge, this is the first report of F. acuminatum causing branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina and worldwide.
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spelling INTA10912018-02-21T15:14:50Z Fusarium branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina Wright, Eduardo Roberto Rivera, Marta Carolina Campanella, Eduardo Raúl Farinon, Omar Marcelo Berretta, Marcelo Facundo Perez, Beatriz Alida Fusarium Vaccinium Corymbosum Arándano Hongos Secuencia de ADN Blueberries Fungi DNA sequence In Argentina, highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) is grown in Tucumán, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires provinces. In the 2010 to 2011 cropping season, a new disease with 10% incidence was observed on the foliage of “Emerald” plants in Concordia, Entre Rios. Symptoms included acropetal blight and premature branch death. Leaves remained attached and showed tan to brown discoloration. A fungal species was isolated from diseased plant parts and identified as belonging to Fusarium section Gibbosum. Based on its growth and pigmentation on potato-dextrose-agar, and characters on carnation leaf-piece agar and Spezieller Nährstoffarmer agar, the strain was identified as Fusarium acuminatum. Additionally, the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of nuclear ribosomal genes were amplified by PCR, sequenced and the DNA sequence was compared with those in GenBank. The NCBI-Blastn search showed 100% identity of the DNA sequence with GenBank Accession No U85533 sequence for F. acuminatum. Pathogenicity was confirmed on wounded branches of potted blueberry plants. To our knowledge, this is the first report of F. acuminatum causing branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina and worldwide. Fil: Wright, Eduardo Roberto. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Cátedra de Fitopatología; Argentina Fil: Rivera, Marta Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Floricultura; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Cátedra de Fitopatología; Argentina Fil: Campanella, Eduardo Raúl. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Cátedra de Fitopatología; Argentina Fil: Farinon, Omar Marcelo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Microbiología y Zoología Agrícola; Argentina Fil: Berretta, Marcelo Facundo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Microbiología y Zoología Agrícola; Argentina. Fil: Perez, Beatriz Alida. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Microbiología y Zoología Agrícola; Argentina 2017-08-31T15:02:17Z 2017-08-31T15:02:17Z 2014-12 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/1091 http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/AJB/article-full-text-pdf/E7D89F949008 1684-5315 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Argentina
spellingShingle Fusarium
Vaccinium Corymbosum
Arándano
Hongos
Secuencia de ADN
Blueberries
Fungi
DNA sequence
Wright, Eduardo Roberto
Rivera, Marta Carolina
Campanella, Eduardo Raúl
Farinon, Omar Marcelo
Berretta, Marcelo Facundo
Perez, Beatriz Alida
Fusarium branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina
title Fusarium branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina
title_full Fusarium branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina
title_fullStr Fusarium branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Fusarium branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina
title_short Fusarium branch blight on highbush blueberry in Argentina
title_sort fusarium branch blight on highbush blueberry in argentina
topic Fusarium
Vaccinium Corymbosum
Arándano
Hongos
Secuencia de ADN
Blueberries
Fungi
DNA sequence
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/1091
http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/AJB/article-full-text-pdf/E7D89F949008
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