Mycoscience (2000) 41, 331-337

Tadashi Ogata, Teruo Sano and Yukio Harada (2000)
Botryosphaeria spp. isolated from apple and several deciduous fruit trees are divided into three groups based on the production of warts on twigs, size of conidia, and nucleotide sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA ITS regions
Mycoscience 41 (4), 331-337
Abstract: We examined the phytopathological and biological characters of Botryosphaeria spp. isolated from apples and other deciduous fruit trees, and determined the nucleotide sequences of their rDNA ITS regions. The Botryosphaeria isolates from deciduous fruit trees can be divided into three groups based on their production of warts on twigs, size of the conidia, and nucleotide sequences of rDNA ITS 1, ITS 2 and 5.8S rDNA. Isolates of Botryosphaeria in ITS group A produced conidia of intermediate size and showed warts on infected twigs prior to the development of ring rot on fruit. This group was common on deciduous fruit trees in Japan as a causal agent of ring rot and wart bark diseases of apples and pears; and it appears similar to the B. dothidea from the US that was isolated from apple exhibiting white rot. The ITS group B Botryosphaeria produced small conidia and induced shoot blight without wart development prior to the development of ring rot on fruit. This group was localized on pear, persimmon, and kiwi fruit in restricted areas of Japan. The ITS group C Botryosphaeria consisted of B. obtusa, the causal agent of apple black rot in the US, which produced large dark brown conidia.
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Database assignments for author(s): Teruo Sano

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Botryosphaeria dothidea	Apple (Malus)
	Botryosphaeria dothidea	Pear (Pyrus)	Japan
	Botryosphaeria dothidea	Persimmon (Diospyros)	Japan
	Botryosphaeria dothidea	Kiwi (Actinidia)	Japan
	Diplodia seriata	Apple (Malus)