Silverleaf (Chondrostereum purpureum) Effects on Japanese Plum (Prunus salicina).

ABSTRACT: Silverleaf is an important fungal trunk disease of fruit crops, such as Japanese plum (Prunus salicina). It is known that infection by Chondrostereum purpureum results in discolored wood, "silvered" foliage, and tree decline. However, effects on fruit yield and quality have not been assessed. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to determine C. purpureum pathogenicity on P. salicina and the effects on physiology, fruit yield, and quality, in Chile, in 2019 and 2020. Wood samples from affected plum trees were collected in the Chilean plum productive area. Fungi were isolated by plating wood sections from the necrosis margin on culture media. Morphological and molecular characteristics of the isolates corresponded to C. purpureum (98%). Representative isolates were inoculated from he

SUBMITTER: Grinbergs D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8709163 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature