Identification and Characterization of Colletotrichum Species Associated with Bitter Rot Disease of Apple in South Korea.

ABSTRACT: Bitter rot caused by Colletotrichum species is a common fruit rotting disease of apple and one of the economically important disease in worldwide. In 2015 and 2016, distinct symptoms of bitter rot disease were observed in apple orchards in five regions of South Korea. In the present study, infected apples from these regions were utilized to obtain eighteen isolates of Colletotrichum spp. These isolates were identified and characterized according to their morphological characteristics and nucleotide sequence data of internal transcribed spacer regions and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate-dehydrogenase. Molecular analyses suggested that the isolates of Colletotrichum causing the bitter rot disease in South Korea belong to 4 species: C. siamense; C. fructicola;

SUBMITTER: Oo MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6305169 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature