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Molecular and Pathogenic Characterization of Fusarium Species Associated with Corm Rot Disease in Saffron from China
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 prese...
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author | Mirghasempour, Seyed Ali Studholme, David J. Chen, Weiliang Zhu, Weidong Mao, Bizeng |
author_facet | Mirghasempour, Seyed Ali Studholme, David J. Chen, Weiliang Zhu, Weidong Mao, Bizeng |
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description | 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 as well as F. commune, and F. annulatum with isolation frequencies of 58.2%, 26.8%, and 14.9%, respectively. Notably, F. commune was more prevalent than F. annulatum in the collected samples. Pathogenicity tests confirmed that both species were pathogenic on saffron corm. This is the first report of F. annulatum and F. commune causing corm rot of saffron, globally. Outcomes of the current research demonstrate that Fusarium spp. associated with saffron corm rot are more diverse than previously reported. Furthermore, some plants were infected by two or more Fusarium species. Our findings broaden knowledge about Fusarium spp. that inflict corm rot and assist the development of control measures. |
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spelling | pubmed-91477342022-05-29 Molecular and Pathogenic Characterization of Fusarium Species Associated with Corm Rot Disease in Saffron from China Mirghasempour, Seyed Ali Studholme, David J. Chen, Weiliang Zhu, Weidong Mao, Bizeng J Fungi (Basel) Article 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 as well as F. commune, and F. annulatum with isolation frequencies of 58.2%, 26.8%, and 14.9%, respectively. Notably, F. commune was more prevalent than F. annulatum in the collected samples. Pathogenicity tests confirmed that both species were pathogenic on saffron corm. This is the first report of F. annulatum and F. commune causing corm rot of saffron, globally. Outcomes of the current research demonstrate that Fusarium spp. associated with saffron corm rot are more diverse than previously reported. Furthermore, some plants were infected by two or more Fusarium species. Our findings broaden knowledge about Fusarium spp. that inflict corm rot and assist the development of control measures. MDPI 2022-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9147734/ /pubmed/35628770 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof8050515 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mirghasempour, Seyed Ali Studholme, David J. Chen, Weiliang Zhu, Weidong Mao, Bizeng Molecular and Pathogenic Characterization of Fusarium Species Associated with Corm Rot Disease in Saffron from China |
title | Molecular and Pathogenic Characterization of Fusarium Species Associated with Corm Rot Disease in Saffron from China |
title_full | Molecular and Pathogenic Characterization of Fusarium Species Associated with Corm Rot Disease in Saffron from China |
title_fullStr | Molecular and Pathogenic Characterization of Fusarium Species Associated with Corm Rot Disease in Saffron from China |
title_full_unstemmed | Molecular and Pathogenic Characterization of Fusarium Species Associated with Corm Rot Disease in Saffron from China |
title_short | Molecular and Pathogenic Characterization of Fusarium Species Associated with Corm Rot Disease in Saffron from China |
title_sort | molecular and pathogenic characterization of fusarium species associated with corm rot disease in saffron from china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9147734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35628770 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof8050515 |
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