First report of Puccinia crepidis-japonicae in Puerto Rico, causing rust disease in oriental false hawksbeard
First report of Puccinia crepidis-japonicae in Puerto Rico, causing rust disease in oriental false hawksbeard
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波多黎各首次报道引起东方假鹰须锈病的锈病
DOI:
10.1007/s42161-022-01300-1
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Poindexter, Tara
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作者:
Savchenko, Kyryll;Poindexter, Tara
Youngia japonica (Asteraceae) is an annual, cosmopolitan herb, commonly known as oriental false hawksbeard, that inhabits disturbed areas. It is native to eastern Asia (China and Japan), and is considered invasive in Africa, the Americas, and Australia-Oceania. Leaves are used as a remedy of cold, sore throat, and diarrhea in China. Puccinia crepidis-japonicae was reported on this host from Asia, the Americas, and Oceania (Farr and Rossman 2021). In May 2022, rust disease caused by a Puccinia species was observed on leaves of Y. japonica near the summit of Cerro de Punta, Puerto Rico. Roughly 60% of observed plants were infected. The specimens were examined microscopically and compared with type specimen descriptions in published literature. The uredinia were amphigenous, rounded, naked, scattered, less than 0.5 mm in diameter, brownish. Urediniospores were globose to ellipsoid, yellow-brown, 19.9–21.9× 22–25 μm (n= 20), echinulate, cell walls around 2 μm, dark yellow brown, with two to three germ pores. No telia were seen. DNA was extracted from a single rust sorus using EZNA Plant DNA kit by Omega. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS), and large subunit (LSU) regions were amplified following the protocols of Demers et al.(2017) and Aime et al.(2018), respectively. Sequences were deposited in GenBank (accession Nos. ON938164, ON921007). A BLASTn search revealed that the sequences share 100% nucleotide similarities with the ITS (KY798395) and LSU (KY798360) sequences of P. crepidis-japonicae on Y. japonica. Phylogenetic analysis of the concatenated dataset using the Bayesian method performed on the Geneious Prime platform, further confirmed the species as P. crepidis-japonicae. To our knowledge, this is the first report of P. crepidis-japonicae in Puerto Rico. Being a pathogen of weedy hosts, P. crepidis-japonicae may play a significant role as a biocontrol agent against Youngia japonica.