Population Structure of the Rice Blast Pathogen in Vietnam
Population Structure of the Rice Blast Pathogen in Vietnam
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越南稻瘟病菌种群结构
DOI:
10.3186/jjphytopath.65.475
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发表时间:
1999
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通讯作者:
S. Mayama
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作者:
L. D. Don;Y. Tosa;H. Nakayashiki;S. Mayama
In Vietnam rice blast disease caused by Pyricularia oryzae Cavara (synonym Pyricularia grisea Sacc., teleomorph Magnaporthe grisea (Hebert) Barr)12) is endemic to the two major rice production areas, the Red River and Mekong River Deltas. Neck blast attacked 138,000 ha in 1991 and 217,000 ha in 1992 in the Red River Delta19). Leaf blast destroyed more than 300 ha of seedling nurseries at Tien Giang province in July 1978 and in other provinces in the Mekong River Delta such as Hau Giang and An Giang in 19816), although preventive spraying with fungicides and growing resistance varieties is widely practiced in most of these areas. Resistance to blast disease in rice cultivars, however, has not been durable. Its breakdown may be attributable to pathotype (race) instability in the isolates and diversity in their populations24). By using DNA fingerprinting with molecular markers, the genetic diversity in the blast fungal populations has been studied in rice growing countries such as the Philippines1), China14), Japan2,16), Columbia9), the United States21) and European countries13). These studies showed that rice blast populations are composed of distinct clonal lineages. Information on the population structure at the lineage level is helpful to understand the epidemiological properties of the rice blast disease. In this report we present results of studies on the sexual compatibility, genetic structure and virulence pattern of rice blast isolates collected from the two major rice areas in Vietnam. A total of 78 isolates were collected from two provinces (Ha Tay and Thai Binh) in the Red River Delta in 1998 and three provinces (Long An, Tien Giang, and Hau Giang) in the Mekong River Delta in 1996 (Table 1, Fig. 1). Several rice leaves infected with the blast fungus were randomly collected in each field, and more than five fields were surveyed in each province. A single conidium was isolated from a single lesion on a leaf and maintained on PDA medium for short-term use or on sterilized barley seeds for long-term storage. The isolates were designated as VHT1.1, VHG2.1, and so on. The letters represent their locality (provinces) (Table 1), while the numeral after the letters refers to the field number in each province, and the numeral after the decimal point (.) shows the isolate number in one field. First, the fertility of the 78 isolates was tested by crossing with highly fertile reference isolates, G10-1 (MAT1-1; A) and Z2-1 (MAT1-2; a) which had been isolated from finger millet in Japan5). Eighty-seven per-