Yang, Y.; Li, Z.; Sun, H.; Jian, C.; Zhang, Q.; Li, Z. Identification of Fusarium solani f. sp. cucurbitae Causing Zucchini Fruit Rot in Inner Mongolia, China. Horticulturae2023, 9, 1020.
Yang, Y.; Li, Z.; Sun, H.; Jian, C.; Zhang, Q.; Li, Z. Identification of Fusarium solani f. sp. cucurbitae Causing Zucchini Fruit Rot in Inner Mongolia, China. Horticulturae 2023, 9, 1020.
Yang, Y.; Li, Z.; Sun, H.; Jian, C.; Zhang, Q.; Li, Z. Identification of Fusarium solani f. sp. cucurbitae Causing Zucchini Fruit Rot in Inner Mongolia, China. Horticulturae2023, 9, 1020.
Yang, Y.; Li, Z.; Sun, H.; Jian, C.; Zhang, Q.; Li, Z. Identification of Fusarium solani f. sp. cucurbitae Causing Zucchini Fruit Rot in Inner Mongolia, China. Horticulturae 2023, 9, 1020.
Abstract
Zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) is an important crash crop for producing seeds in Inner Mongolia, China. In August 2021, the harvest season of seed-producing zucchini, fruit rot symptom (cv. Jindi No.1) was found in the Wuyuan region. The incidence of infected fruits of zucchini ranged from 10% to 30% and symptom consisted in 4 to 5 cm diameter lesions where the fruit was in contact with the soil. Ten isolations from six symptomatic fruits were preliminary classified as Fusarium species based on its morphological characters in potato dextrose agar. Phylogenetic tree was constructed by concatenating TEF-1α and RPB2 gene and exhibited the isolates clustered together with the Fusarium solani f. sp. cucurbitae sequences. Pathogenicity tests revealed that two isolates caused over 3 cm diameter lesions on the fruits while negative-controls remained asymptomatic. The colonies reisolated from the leasions were morphologically identical to the original isolates, thus fulfilling Koch’s postulates. Results demonstrated that F. solani f. sp. cucurbitae was the causal agent of fruit rot observed in the field. To our knowledge, this is the first report of fruit rot of seed-producing zucchini caused by F. solani f. sp. cucurbitae in Inner Mongolia, China.
Keywords
Zucchini; fruit rot; Fusarium solani f. sp. cucurbitae; China
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Horticulture
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