Symptomology and etiology of a new disease, yellow stunt, and root rot of standing milkvetch caused by Embellisia sp. in Northern China
Symptomology and etiology of a new disease, yellow stunt, and root rot of standing milkvetch caused by Embellisia sp. in Northern China
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DOI:
10.1007/s11046-007-9002-2
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发表时间:
2007-05
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Y. Li;Z. Nan
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作者:
Y. Li;Z. Nan
AnEmbellisiasp. has been established as the cause of a new disease of the herbaceous perennial forage legume, ‹standing milkvetch’ (Astragalus adsurgensPall.) in Northern China, which severely reduces plant density and degradesA.adsurgensstands. The disease was common at an experimental location in Gansu Province where it was recognized by the occurrence of stunted plants with reddish-brown stems and yellow and necrotic leaf blades. AnEmbellisiasp. was isolated from symptomatic stem, leaf blade, petiole, and root tissues at varying frequencies of up to 90%. Single-spore isolates grew very slowly on PCA, PDA, V-8 and, wheat hay decoction agar. Pathogenicity was confirmed by inoculation of seeds, dipping 2-day-old pre-germinated seedlings in inoculum and spraying inoculum on 6-month-old plants. Symptoms on test plants included yellow leaf lesions, brown lesions on stems and petioles, stunted side-shoots with yellow, small, distorted and necrotic leaves, shoot blight, bud death, crown rot, root rot, and plant death. The disease is named as ‹yellow stunt and root rot’ ofA.adsurgensto distinguish it from diseases caused by other known pathogens.Embellisiasp. is also pathogenic toA.sinicusbut not to 11 other tested plant species.