First Report of Pythium irregulare Causing Damping-Off on Soybean in Japan
First Report of Pythium irregulare Causing Damping-Off on Soybean in Japan
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日本首次报告不规则腐霉引起大豆猝倒病
DOI:
10.1094/pdis-12-18-2247-pdn
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发表时间:
2019
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影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Tojo Motoaki
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作者:
You Xiaodong;Zhao Han;Tojo Motoaki
In Japan, soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) is an important oil and protein crop deeply rooted in Japanese food culture in products such as soy sauce and miso. Recently, many farmers prefer transplantation cultivation of soybean because it decreases feeding by birds and because crops can be harvested earlier than with direct seeding cultivation (Motoki and Sodeyama 2007). In May 2018, severe damping-off was found on soybean seedlings (cv. Ezomidori) after transplanting into a converted rice paddy in Osaka, Japan. Approximately 5% of the transplants were destroyed by the disease. Abundant aplerotic oospores were found in symptomatic roots. Sections of diseased roots were rinsed twice with sterile distilled water, dried with sterilized filter paper, and plated on Pythium-selective NARM medium (Morita and Tojo 2007) at 25 C for 3 days. Two Pythium-like organisms were isolated (KN1 and KN2), and their morphological features were examined using a grass blade culture (van der Plaats-Niterink 1981). Hyphal growth rates at different temperatures were determined using potato carrot agar. Both isolates had morphological features as follows: main hyphae were up to 6 μm wide, oogonia were terminal or intercalary and 14 to 20 μm in diameter, antheridia were one to two per oogonium, and oospores were aplerotic and 10 to 20 μm in diameter. Hyphal swellings were terminal or intercalary and 9 to 24 μm in diameter. Cardinal temperatures for growth were 4 C minimum, 28 C optimum, and 37 C maximum, with a daily radial growth rate of 29.5 mm at 25 C. The morphological features corresponded with the descriptions of Pythium irregulare in van der Plaats-Niterink (1981). The ribosomal internal transcribed spacer regions of the isolates were amplified and sequenced with primers ITS4 and ITS5 (White et al. 1990). Sequence analysis of both isolates KN1 (GenBank accession no. MK123416) and KN2 (MK123417) showed 99.0% identity with P. irregulare isolate CBS 250.28 (AY598702). Based on these features, isolates KN1 and KN2 were identified as P. irregulare and were deposited in the NIAS Genebank, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, as isolate numbers MAFF 246895 and MAFF 246896, respectively. Isolates KN1 and KN2 were cultured on autoclaved bentgrass seeds at 25 C in darkness for 1 week. One gram of colonized seeds was thoroughly mixed with 100 g of seedling raising medium (Takii, Kyoto, Japan) using a mortar and pestle, and the mixture was put in a ceramic pot. Fifteen 7-day-old soybean seedlings grown on the seedling raising medium were transplanted into ceramic pots, one plant per pot. Pots were kept at 12 or 25 C in a growth chamber (12 h day/12 h night) and watered daily. Noninoculated pots were used as controls. At 14 days after inoculation of KN1 and KN2 isolates, slight root rot appeared on all inoculated plants at 25 C, and severe damping-off appeared at 12 C. No incidence of disease was observed on the noninoculated soybean seedlings at either temperature. Consistent reisolation of P. irregulare was morphologically confirmed from the diseased plants, thus fulfilling Koch’s postulates. The effect of temperature on P. irregulare agrees with Wei et al.(2011), showing cold stress increases soybean susceptibility to damping-off caused by P. irregulare. To our knowledge, this is the first report of P. irregulare causing damping-off on soybean in Japan. The results suggest that transplanting and cool temperatures might increase risk of damping-off by the pathogen.