Etiology of Cyclocarya paliurus Anthracnose in Jiangsu Province, China.

ABSTRACT: Cyclocarya paliurus is an extremely valuable and multifunctional tree species whose leaves have traditionally been used in used in medicine or as a medicinal tea in China. In recent years, anthracnose has been frequently observed on young leaves of C. paliurus in several nurseries located in Jiangsu Province, resulting in great yield and quality losses. To date, no information is available about the prevalence of C. paliurus anthracnose in China. The main purpose of the present study was to characterize the etiology of C. paliurus anthracnose. Phylogenetic analysis of the eight-loci concatenated dataset revealed that all 44 single-spore Colletotrichum isolates belonged to three species in the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex, namely,

SUBMITTER: Zheng XR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7847979 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature