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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Microbiol.
Sec. Microbe and Virus Interactions with Plants
Volume 15 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1458456
This article is part of the Research Topic Management of Phytopathogenic Fungal Infection and Related Mycotoxin Contamination in Grains and Fruits View all articles
Mucor xinjiangensis sp. nov, causing a new brown rot disease of plum and screening of its chemical control
Provisionally accepted- 1 Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crop in Northwestern Oasis, Institute of Plant Protection, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China
- 2 Xinjiang Special Environment Microbiology Laboratory, Institute of Applied Microbiology, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumuqi, Xinjiang, China
A novel species of Mucor was identified as the causal agent of a brown rot of Prunus domestica (European plum), widely grown in the south of Xinjiang, China. This disease first appears as red spots after the onset of the fruits. With favorable environmental conditions, fruit with infected spots turn brown, sag, expand, wrinkle, and harden, resulting in fruit falling. Fungal species were isolated from infected fruits. A phylogenetic analysis based on Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) regions and the Large Subunit (LSU) of the nuclear ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene regions strongly supported that these isolates made a distinct evolutionary lineage in Mucor (Mucoromycetes, Mucoraceae) that represents a new taxonomic species, herein named as Mucor xinjiangensis. Microscopic characters confirmed that these strains were morphologically distinct from known Mucor species. The pathogenicity of Mucor xinjiangensis was confirmed by attaching agar disk containing mycelium on fruits and reisolation of the pathogen from symptomatic tissues. Later, fourteen fungicides were selected to determine the inhibitory effect on the pathogen. Further, results showed that difenoconazole had the best effect on the pathogen and the strongest toxicity with smallest half maximal effective concentration (EC50) value, followed by a compound fungicide composed of difenoconazole with azoxystrobin, mancozeb, prochloraz with iprodione, pyraclostrobin with tebuconazole, trifloxystrobin with tebuconazole and ethhylicin. Present study provides the basis for the prevention and control of the novel plum disease and its pathogen.
Keywords: Chemical control, new taxon, Plant Pathogen, Taxonomy, Xinjiang (China)
Received: 02 Jul 2024; Accepted: 16 Aug 2024.
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* Correspondence:
Mubashar Raza, Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crop in Northwestern Oasis, Institute of Plant Protection, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China
Zhu Xiaofeng, Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crop in Northwestern Oasis, Institute of Plant Protection, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China
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