First report of leaf spot caused by Nigrospora hainanensis on Oxalis corymbosa in China
First report of leaf spot caused by Nigrospora hainanensis on Oxalis corymbosa in China
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DOI:
10.1094/pdis-10-21-2149-pdn
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4.5
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Yan Hui Wang
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Tao Zheng;Lin Zhao;Meng Ge Huang;Jian Xin Deng;Yan Hui Wang
Oxalis corymbosa DC., introduced to China as an ornamental plant in the mid-19th century, is an important medicinal and edible perennial herb (Zhou et al. 2021). Native to South America, it is an invasive, widely distributed weed found in agricultural farms, gardens, and lawns, especially in the sugarcane fields of Guangxi Province, China. The coverage of O. corymbosa in sugarcane fields is normally> 70%, and sometimes 100%. In March 2021, a leaf spot disease of O. corymbosa from sugarcane fields was encountered in Nanning City, Guangxi. Early symptoms appeared as small, yellowish, round spots. The spots became irregular, usually exhibiting pale brown necrosis in the center with dark brown, necrotic, and well-defined margins. Severely infected leaves became blighted and died. To isolate the pathogen, diseased leaf tissue fragments (4× 4 mm) were soaked in 75% ethanol for 10 s followed by 2% NaOCl for 1 min and rinsed in sterile water three times. They were transferred to potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium and cultured at 25 C. Pure cultures were obtained by collecting hyphal tips from colonies. The colony features were similar to each other: floccose and white at first, becoming brown, dark brown, or black after 7 days fully covered on PDA in 90-mm Petri dishes. Conidial determination was conducted on synthetic nutrient-poor agar (SNA) medium according to Wang et al.(2017). Conidia were abundantly dispersed on SNA arising from conidiophores, which normally reduced to conidiogenous cells generated from hyphae. The conidiogenous cells were monoblastic, hyaline, globose or ampulliform, and 6 to 8.5 (to 12.5)× 5 to 7.5 (to 9) μm (n= 50). Conidia were solitary, smooth, black, spherical or ellipsoidal, and (11 to) 13 to 16.5×(8 to) 10 to 15.5 μm (n= 100). Setae were not observed. The fungus was identified as Nigrospora sp. based on the morphology. A representative strain (FSC-3) was selected for genomic DNA extraction. Sequences of the transcribed spacer region of rDNA (ITS), partial translation elongation factor (TEF1), and beta-tubulin fragment (TUB) were amplified using primer pairs ITS1/ITS4 (White et al. 1990), EF1-728F and EF2 (Carbone and Kohn 1999; Crous et al. 2013), and Bt2a and Bt2b (Glass and Donaldson 1995), respectively. They were deposited in NCBI GenBank (accession nos. OK083685 [541 bp], OK184809 [481 bp], and OK086377 [421 bp]). BLASTn analysis showed that the ITS, TEF1, and TUB gene sequences shared 99 to 100% identity with the type strain (CGMCC3. 18129) of Nigrospora hainanensis (GenBank accession nos. NR153480, KY019415, and KY019464, respectively). A maximum likelihood analysis using the concatenated gene sequences of ITS, TEF1, and TUB was performed in RAxML v. 7.2. 8 (Stamatakis 2006) implementing the model of GTRCAT with 1,000 bootstrap replicates. The phylogenetic results indicated that FSC-3 was N. hainanensis, which was also confirmed by a morphological comparison with N. hainanensis (Wang et al. 2017). Pathogenicity was tested on living O. corymbosa leaves (three plants per test) arising from cultivated roots grown for 3 weeks. It was conducted by dropping 5 μl of conidial suspension (105 conidia/ml) on leaves (two sites per leaf) and incubating them in separate containers at 25 C with 90 to 100% relative humidity. Controls were treated with sterile distilled water. Pale brown small spots appeared after 24 h and grew into larger brown spots. Symptoms were similar to field ones, while the control plants remained healthy. The pathogenicity test was repeated twice with similar results. Reisolation of the pathogen from inoculated leaves was determined …