Taxonomy of fungal complex causing red-skin root of Panax ginseng in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Red-skin root of Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng) significantly reduces the quality and limits the production of ginseng in China. The disease has long been thought to be a noninfectious physiological disease, except one report that proved it was an infectious disease. However, the causal agents have not been successfully determined. In the present study, we were to reveal the pathogens that cause red-skin disease.

Methods

Ginseng roots with red-skin root symptoms were collected from commercial fields in Northeast China. Fungi were isolated from the lesion and identified based on morphological characters along with multilocus sequence analyses on internal transcription spacer, β-tubulin (tub2), histone H3 (his3), and translation elongation factor

SUBMITTER: Lu XH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7195572 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature