Molecular and Pathogenic Characterization of <i>Fusarium</i> Species Associated with Corm Rot Disease in Saffron from China.

ABSTRACT: Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is a commercial spice crop well-known throughout the world, valued for culinary, colorant, and pharmaceutical purposes. In China, Fusarium nirenbergiae was detected as causative agent of saffron corm rot, the most pervasive disease for the first time in 2020. In the present study, 261 Fusarium-like isolates were recovered from 120 rotted corms in four saffron producing fields at Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Yunnan provinces, China, in 2021. A combination of morpho-cultural features and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of the concatenated rpb2 (DNA-directed RNA polymerase II largest subunit) and tef1 (translation elongation factor 1-α) partial sequences showed that the isolates from saffron belong to Fusarium nirenbergiae a

SUBMITTER: Mirghasempour SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9147734 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature