麻风树叶枯病菌的鉴定

作者于2009年在贵州麻风树栽培基地栽培的麻风树上发现一种叶部新病害,定名为麻风树叶枯病。该病主要危害植株叶片,叶片受害后初期产生椭圆形或不规则病斑,后期病斑连成片,常引起叶片过早脱落。从贵州罗甸麻风树栽培基地采集了16个叶枯病标样,经分离培养获得13个真菌分离物。通过致病性测定,证明菌株PE06为麻风树叶枯病的病原菌。通过形态学观察及其rDNA-ITS序列分析,将贵州麻风树叶枯病的病原菌鉴定为小孢拟盘多毛孢菌Pestalotiopsis microspora,这也是首次在麻风树叶片上发现由该病菌引起的病害。     

蓝莓拟盘多毛孢枝枯病的病原菌

近期在山东省蓝莓种植区发现1种枝枯病害。为明确该致病菌,通过病原菌组织分离和接种试验获得2个致病菌株。通过形态学观察和rDNA‐ITS序列分析,确定该病原菌为棒状拟盘多毛孢Pestalotiopsis clavispora。这是棒状拟盘多毛孢所致蓝莓枝枯病在国内的首次报道。     

板栗上的拟茎点霉一新种

在山东泰安、临沂等板栗产区新发生一种叶部病害,叶片感病后,产生褐色斑点,后期呈不规则大面积干枯,继而引起严重的早期落叶。通过对病原物的分离、纯化、病原菌形态、培养性状的观察及rDNA-ITS序列进行同源性比对分析,确定引起该病害的病原菌为一新种,将其定名为板栗拟茎点霉Phomopsis castaneae-mollissimae。新种的载孢体近球形,有2种分生孢子,甲型孢子多为椭圆形,少为披针形,具2个明显的油球,形态及大小异于板栗属植物上已知的拟茎点霉。文中对新种进行了拉丁文描述。模式标本保存于山东农业大学植物病理标本室(HSAUP)。     

内生真菌感染对宿主羊草抗病性的影响

以感染内生真菌的天然禾草羊草为实验材料,通过体外纯培养条件下的内生真菌、感染内生真菌的离体叶片和在体叶片对3种病原菌的抑菌实验,以探讨内生真菌对宿主植物羊草在抗病性方面的贡献。结果表明:体外纯培养条件下,分离自羊草的内生真菌Epichlobromicola对新月弯孢(Curvularia lunata)、根腐离蠕孢(Bipolaris sorokiniana)和枝孢霉(Cladosporium sp.)这3种病原菌都具有抑制作用,抑菌率分别达56.22%,46.93%和45.15%,且内生真菌培养滤液可以有效抑制这3种病原菌的孢子萌发,平均萌发率分别为30.4%,15.7%和16.4%;宿主植物叶片在离体条件下,内生真菌感染可以有效降低羊草叶片受C.lunata和C.sp.侵染后的病斑数或病斑长度,但对B.sorokiniana不起作用,甚至提高了叶片的病斑数及病斑长度,而离体叶片提取液对不同病原菌均有不同程度的抑制作用;在体条件下,内生真菌均可以通过降低叶片病斑数来增强羊草植株对这3种病原菌的抗性。由此看来,内生真菌E.bromicola对宿主植物羊草在抗病原菌侵染方面有一定的增益作用。     

氨基酸影响尖孢镰孢菌古巴专化型厚垣孢子的形成

香蕉枯萎病是由尖孢镰孢菌古巴专化型Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense（Foc）侵染引起的一种土传真菌病害,已严重威胁香蕉产业的健康发展。该病菌产生的厚垣孢子可在土壤中存活多年,是香蕉枯萎病的初侵染源。本研究通过氨基酸添加试验,证明添加甘氨酸可抑制厚垣孢子的形成;通过对该病菌厚垣孢子形成前期、初期、中期和后期的转录组分析,发现氨基酸合成通路中有93个基因的表达水平在厚垣孢子形成过程中发生了显著变化;In silico 分析表明其中10个基因参与调控真菌的氨基酸合成,11个基因参与调控真菌种的生长发育和产孢,19个基因参与调控真菌种的致病性和毒素产生。由此推测,氨基酸合成通路不仅与尖孢镰孢菌古巴专化型厚垣孢子的形成相关,其有可能参与调控该病菌的致病性。     

云南松针上散斑壳的培养类型

四川二郎山云南松（Pinusyunnanensis）松针上散斑壳种有四川散斑秃（Lophodermiumsichuanense）、针叶树散斑壳（Lconigenum）、松针散斑壳（Lpinastri）印度散斑壳（Lindianum）,对主要种经单抱分离在2％MA（pH5.0）平板上25℃黑暗培养,按菌落形态特征、产孢状况,将L.sichuanense培养物划分为二个培养类型,Lconigenum划分五个培养类型,Lpinastri划分二个培养类型。在散斑壳种间及同一种的不同培养类型间,各培养物的生长适宜温度、适宜pH、适宜培养基以及产孢时间、产孢量等方面都存在着差异。     

草莓拟盘多毛孢叶斑病的病原菌

于2013年在北京市房山区发现了一种新的草莓叶部病害,为明确引起该病害的病原菌种类,采用组织分离法对病叶进行了病原菌的分离,经纯化得到一株病原菌CMF4。通过室内人工接种对该菌株的致病性和寄主范围进行测定,发现该菌株可以导致草莓叶片坏死和果实腐烂,可引起有伤供试植物牡丹、海棠、芍药、杏、樱桃、桃和月季发病,但不能无伤侵入,对人工接种发病的植株进行病原菌再分离可得到原接种病原菌。采用rDNA-ITS序列分析方法并结合该病原菌的形态特征进行鉴定,发现引起该病害的病原菌为棒孢拟盘多毛孢Pestalotiopsis clavispora。这是棒孢拟盘多毛孢所致草莓叶斑病在国内的首次报道。     

抗油桐枯萎病木霉菌的分离鉴定及抑菌作用研究

油桐是我国重要的木本油料植物,其生产的桐油作为天然的优良干性油在工业上具有广泛用途。但由油桐专化型尖孢镰孢菌Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. fordiis（Fof-1）侵染引起的枯萎病给油桐产业造成了毁灭性灾害,目前尚无有效防治手段。众多实践证明,利用生防菌可以有效防治土传枯萎病。本研究发现,在抗病油桐根围土壤中木霉菌的相对丰度较高,并从中分离获得了16株木霉菌;通过形态学鉴定和ITS-TEF1双基因联合构建系统进化树,鉴定出4种木霉菌：拟康宁木霉Trichoderma koningiopsis（TkonT1）、螺旋木霉T. spirale（TspiT2）、深绿木霉T. atroviride（TatrT3）和哈茨木霉T. harzianum（TharT4）;通过对峙培养试验,发现木霉菌株TkonT1、TharT4和TspiT2具有较好的抑菌效果;进一步显微观察发现菌株TkonT1和TatrT3可缠绕在尖孢镰孢菌菌丝体上或穿入菌丝体内营寄生生长,吸收病菌菌丝体养分进而导致病菌菌丝体破裂和细胞原生质消解。结果表明,从抗病油桐根围土壤中获得的拮抗木霉菌株可用于油桐枯萎病的生物防治。     

苹果炭疽叶枯病病原学研究

炭疽叶枯病菌能够侵染苹果叶片造成病叶早期干枯、脱落,侵染果实引起坏死性斑点。该病害近年来在我国一些苹果产区被发现,并有迅速蔓延的趋势。对采自河南和陕西的苹果炭疽叶枯病的病原菌进行了形态学、培养特性、致病性及分子系统发育研究,明确了引起该病害的病原为果生刺盘孢Colletotrichum fructicola和隐秘刺盘孢C.aenigma。经致病性测定,证明C.fructicola和C.aenigma对嘎拉、秦冠、金冠、粉红女士、太平洋玫瑰、金世纪、蜜脆等以金冠为亲本的品种叶片致病;在有伤接种时,C.fructicola和C.aenigma对嘎拉、金冠、秦冠、太平洋玫瑰、新红星、富士等品种果实具有致病性;在无伤接种时,C.fructicola对嘎拉、金冠果实致病,C.aenigma对嘎拉果实致病。研究结果表明,C.fructicola和C.aenigma对不同品种叶片和果实的致病性都存在明显的分化现象。     

木霉(Trichoderma spp.)对三种引起大棚蔬菜病害病原菌的影响

通过木霉属(Trichoderma) 3菌株与双鸭山蔬菜大棚中的黄瓜枯萎病菌(FusariumoxysporumSchlecht.f.cucumerinum)、黄瓜果腐病菌(PhytophthoracapsiciLeonian)、菜豆叶枯病菌(Cladosporiumsp .)的对峙培养试验,结果表明:绿色木霉1(TrichodermaviridePers.exGray 1)可作为双鸭山蔬菜大棚中的黄瓜枯萎病、黄瓜果腐病、菜豆叶枯病3种病害的生物防治拮抗菌加以利用,该拮抗菌对菜豆叶枯病菌抑制效果最好;绿色木霉2 (Tricho dermaviride 2 )对黄瓜果腐病菌抑制效果最好;而哈茨木霉(TrichodermaharzianumRifai)对以上3种病原菌都有抑制效果,对菜豆叶枯病菌抑制效果最好。从试验结果还可看出,绿色木霉2对黄瓜枯萎病菌和菜豆叶枯病菌的生长有促进作用。     

PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE VERTICILLIUM WILT DISEASE OF TOMATO

The water loss per unit leaf area of tomato plants was decreased after inoculation with Verticillium albo-atrum. When diseased plants began to wilt water loss temporarily increased, but then rapidly decreased to become less than that of healthy plants grown under conditions of adequate or restricted water supply.
The transpiration of excised leaves from plants grown with a restricted water supply was reduced, but not so severely as that of comparable leaves from infected plants. Water loss from leaves on infected plants was reduced irrespective of any blocking of the petiolar xylem.
The rate of water loss from turgid leaf disks on mannitol solutions, and the rate of water uptake of leaf disks on water was similar for disks cut from wilting or turgid leaves of diseased plants or healthy plants grown with an adequate or restricted water supply.
Disease or poor water supply reduced leaf growth but had no effect on the rate of leaf initiation. Although the density of stomata was higher on leaves of diseased plants the stomatal area was less than on healthy plants.
The resistance to water flow in diseased stems was high and was correlated with vessel blockage. About half the blocked vessels contained hyphae. The severity and localization of symptoms in inoculated plants growing on susceptible or resistant rootstocks was directly related to the extent of invasion by the pathogen and to vessel blockage.
Experiments on the wilting activity of cell-free filtrates from cultures of the pathogen in vitro indicated that it produced a stable substance, not an enzyme, that caused wilting in cut shoots by blocking the end of the stem. It is suggested that an increasing internal water shortage causes major symptoms of disease.     

Gas Exchange and Emission of Chlorophyll Fluorescence during the Monocycle of Rust, Angular Leaf Spot and Anthracnose on Bean Leaves as a Function of their Trophic Characteristics

Measurements related to gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence emission were taken from healthy and diseased bean leaves with rust, angular leaf spot, and anthracnose during lesion development for each disease. The experiments were performed at different temperatures of plant incubation, and using two bean cultivars. The main effect of temperature of plant incubation was in disease development. There was no significant difference between cultivars in relation to disease development and in magnitude of physiological alterations when disease severity was the same for each cultivar. These diseases reduced the net photosynthetic rate and increased the dark respiration of infected leaves after the appearance of visible symptoms and the differences between healthy and diseased leaves increased with disease development. The transpiration rate and stomatal conductance were stable during the monocycle of rust, however, these two variables decreased in leaves with angular leaf spot and anthracnose beginning with symptom appearance and continuing until lesion development was complete. Carboxylation resistance was probably the main factor related to reduction of photosynthetic rate of the apparently healthy area of leaves with rust and angular leaf spot. Reduction of the intercellular concentration of CO₂, due to higher stomatal resistance, was probably the main factor for leaves with anthracnose. Chlorophyll fluorescence assessments suggested that there was no change in electron transport capacity and generation of ATP and NADPH in apparently healthy areas of diseased leaves, but decreases in chlorophyll fluorescence emission occurred on visibly lesioned areas for all diseases. Minimal fluorescence was remarkably reduced in leaves with angular leaf spot. Maximal fluorescence and optimal quantum yield of photosystem II of leaves were reduced for all three diseases. Bean rust, caused by a biotrophic pathogen, induced less damage to the regulation mechanisms of the physiological processes of the remaining green area of diseased leaves than did bean angular leaf spot or anthracnose, caused by hemibiotrophic pathogens. The magnitude of photosynthesis reduction can be related to the host–pathogen trophic relationships.     

Inoculum Sources for the Spread of Leaf Scald Disease of Sugarcane Caused by Xanthomonas albilineans in Guadeloupe

Leaf scald of sugarcane, caused by Xanthomonas albilineans, is thought to be spread mainly in infected cuttings and transmitted on infested cutting implements. Several observations made in Guadeloupe indicated that other means of spreading also occur. The dispersal of the pathogen outside sugarcane was investigated with plants inoculated by an antibiotic-resistant marked strain of X. albilineans and with plants naturally infested with wild strains of the pathogen. The bacteria were isolated in water droplets (rain or dew) on the surface of sugarcane leaves at dawn. It was also detected on the surface of dry leaves during the day by leaf imprinting onto a selective culture medium. The bacteria were much more frequently isolated from the surface of symptomatic leaves than from symptomless ones. Aerial dispersal of X. albilineans was investigated by placing Petri dishes containing selective culture medium between sugarcane plants but without direct contact with the leaves. The pathogen was isolated in four out of 270 dishes which were randomly set 3-14 h in a diseased field. These results indicated that the pathogen exuded from the leaves and then was spread by aerial means (rain, insects,…) or by leaf contact. The bacteria were also found in roots and rhizospheric soil of infested sugarcane stools suggesting that X. albilineans could be transmitted by root to root contact or by the soil. Finally, isolations of the pathogen in sugarcane inflorescences were positive. So, fuzz transmission may also occur.     

Inoculum Sources for the Spread of Leaf Scald Disease of Sugarcane Caused by Xanthomonas albilineans in Guadeloupe

Leaf scald of sugarcane, caused by Xanthomonas albilineans, is thought to be spread mainly in infected cuttings and transmitted on infested cutting implements. Several observations made in Guadeloupe indicated that other means of spreading also occur. The dispersal of the pathogen outside sugarcane was investigated with plants inoculated by an antibiotic-resistant marked strain of X. albilineans and with plants naturally infested with wild strains of the pathogen. The bacteria were isolated in water droplets (rain or dew) on the surface of sugarcane leaves at dawn. It was also detected on the surface of dry leaves during the day by leaf imprinting onto a selective culture medium. The bacteria were much more frequently isolated from the surface of symptomatic leaves than from symptomless ones. Aerial dispersal of X. albilineans was investigated by placing Petri dishes containing selective culture medium between sugarcane plants but without direct contact with the leaves. The pathogen was isolated in four out of 270 dishes which were randomly set 3–14 h in a diseased field. These results indicated that the pathogen exuded from the leaves and then was spread by aerial means (rain, insects, …) or by leaf contact. The bacteria were also found in roots and rhizospheric soil of infested sugarcane stools suggesting that X. albilineans could be transmitted by root to root contact or by the soil. Finally, isolations of the pathogen in sugarcane inflorescences were positive. So, fuzz transmission may also occur.     

Studies on leaf spot disease of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Withania somnifera</Emphasis> and its impact on secondary metabolites

During an investigation of the disease profile of Withania somnifera, it was observed that leaf spot is the most prevalent disease. Repeated isolations from infected leaf tissues and pathogenicity tests showed the association of fungal pathogen identified as Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissler. Scanning electron microscopy showed various histological changes in the leaf tissues of infected plants. A decrease in total content of reducing sugars (20%) and chlorophyll (26.5%) was observed in diseased leaves whereas an increase was noticed in proline (25%), free amino acids (3%) and proteins (74.3%). High performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) analysis of secondary metabolites viz. withanolides, withaferin-A and total alkaloids of the diseased leaves vis-à-vis control revealed reduction in withaferin-A and withanolides contents by 15.4% and 76.3% respectively, in contrast to an increase in total alkaloids by 49.3%, information hitherto unreported in W. somnifera.     

油桐叶品质对油桐尺蠖生长发育的影响

用上年受害树和未受害树的当年新发叶在室内饲养油桐尺蠖幼虫,并用Folin－Denis分析方法测定了当年受害叶,受害后新发叶和未受害叶的总单宁含量。结果表明,取食受害叶的幼虫比取食未受害叶者存活率低20．5％,发有速度慢2天,体长短5.0mm,蛹重轻25．3％。叶内总单宁含量不因受害而上升,反而呈下降趋势,说明叶内成分中影响幼虫生长发育的是非单宁物质。     

Identification of Alternaria tenuissima causing brown leaf spot on Paris polyphylla var. chinensis in China

Severe brown leaf spot disease was observed on Paris polyphylla var. chinensis in Sichuan Province, China, in 2017 and 2018. The initial symptoms were many light‐brown small spots with necrotic centres, round or irregular in shape, becoming dark brown, gradually enlarging and eventually coalescing, causing extensive leaf senescence. A fungus was isolated from diseased leaves showing typical symptoms of brown leaf spot. The isolates were cultured on potato sucrose agar, and their morphological characteristics of the causal pathogen were observed under a light microscope. Pathogenicity tests revealed that this fungus was the causal pathogen of the disease. Molecular analyses of the sequences of the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, translation elongation factor 1‐alpha (TEF) and the RNA polymerase II second largest subunit (RBP2) gene were conducted to confirm the identity of the pathogen. The multi‐gene phylogeny indicated that the causal agent was Alternaria tenuissima. To our knowledge, this is the first report of A. tenuissima causing brown leaf sports on P. polyphylla var. chinensis in China.     

Analysis of leaf appearance,leaf death and phoma leaf spot,caused by Leptosphaeria maculans,on oilseed rape (Brassica napus) cultivars

Development of phoma leaf spot (caused by Leptosphaeria maculans) on winter oilseed rape (canola, Brassica napus) was assessed in two experiments at Rothamsted in successive years (2003–04 and 2004–05 growing seasons). Both experiments compared oilseed rape cultivars Eurol, Darmor, Canberra and Lipton, which differ in their resistance to L. maculans. Data were analysed to describe disease development in terms of increasing numbers of leaves affected over thermal time from sowing. The cultivars showed similar patterns of leaf spot development in the 2003–04 experiment when inoculum concentration was relatively low (up to 133 ascospores m⁻³ air), Darmor developing 5.3 diseased leaves per plant by 5 May 2004, Canberra 6.6, Eurol 6.8 and Lipton 7.5. Inoculum concentration was up to sevenfold greater in 2004–05, with Eurol and Darmor developing 2.4 diseased leaves per plant by 16 February 2005, whereas Lipton and Canberra developed 2.8 and 3.0 diseased leaves, respectively. Based on three defined periods of crop development, a piece-wise linear statistical model was applied to the progress of the leaf spot disease (cumulative diseased leaves) in relation to appearance (‘birth’) and death of leaves for individual plants of each cultivar. Estimates of the thermal time from sowing until appearance of the first leaf or death of the first leaf, the rate of increase in number of diseased leaves and the area under the disease progress line (AUDPL) for the first time period were made. In 2004–05, Canberra (1025 leaves ×°C days) and Lipton (879) had greater AUDPL values than Eurol (427) and Darmor (598). For Darmor and Lipton, the severity of leaf spotting could be related to the severity of stem canker at harvest. Eurol had less leaf spotting but severe stem canker, whereas Canberra had more leaf spotting but less severe canker.