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Morphological and molecular characterization of the strawberry black leaf spot pathogen referred to as the strawberry pathotype of Alternaria alternata
Authors:Junji Nishikawa  Chiharu Nakashima
Institution:1. Kakegawa Research Center, Sakata Seed Co., 1743-2 Yoshioka, Kakegawa, Shizuoka, 436-0115, Japan;2. Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, 1577 Kurima-machiya, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan
Abstract:The remaining unclarified taxon among the seven known pathotypes of host-selective toxin (HST)-producing Alternaria alternata, namely, the strawberry pathotype (the strawberry black leaf spot pathogen), is taxonomically revised and re-described herein. According to our morphological observations, reference isolates of strawberry and Japanese pear pathotypes, which are toxic to leaves of Japanese pear ‘Nijisseiki’, have conidia that are formed in chains of 3–13, usually without lateral branches, after 7?d incubation on potato-carrot agar. The mean size of the conidia is 27–31?×?11–13?μm. Morphological characteristics of the examined isolates are identical to those of A. gaisen rather than A. alternata. A phylogenetic tree obtained by analysis of a combined dataset of ITS, gapdh, rpb2, tef1, Alt a 1, and endoPG sequences also strongly supports both pathotypes as one species, A. gaisen. We re-describe the fungus as A. gaisen Nagano ex Bokura and propose two formae speciales of the species, A. gaisen f. sp. fragariae producing AF-toxin and f. sp. pyri producing AK-toxin. The epitype specimen and ex-epitype culture of A. gaisen are newly designated.
Keywords:Host-selective toxin  Taxonomy
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