Plant Pathology (2002) 51, 208-216

Q. Zheng and R. Ploetz (2002)
Genetic diversity in the mango malformation pathogen and development of a PCR assay
Plant Pathology 51 (2), 208-216
Abstract: Malformation is a destructive disease of mango, Mangifera indica. Its causal agent possesses the morphological features of Fusarium subglutinans, a species whose taxonomy and nomenclature has recently been in a state of flux. Genetic diversity was examined among 74 F. subglutinans-like isolates from malformed mango in Brazil, Egypt, Florida (USA), India, Israel and South Africa. With nitrate-nonutilizing (nit) auxotrophic mutants, seven vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs) were identified. Three of the VCGs were found in a single country, and VCG diversity was greatest in Egypt and the USA where, respectively, four and three different VCGs were found. RAPD profiles generated with arbitrary decamer primers were variable among isolates in different VCGs, but were generally uniform for isolates within a VCG. In PCR assays, a 20-mer primer pair that was developed previously to identify F. subglutinans from maize (mating population [MP]-E of the Gibberella fujikuroi complex) also amplified a specific 448 bp fragment for isolates of F. sacchari from sugarcane (MP-B) and what was probably F. circinatum (pine, MP-H). With the exception of three isolates from Brazil, it did not amplify the fragment from F. subglutinans-like isolates from mango. A second pair of 20-mer primers was developed from a unique fragment in the RAPD assays. It amplified a specific 608 bp fragment for 51 of 54 isolates from mango (all but the three Brazilian isolates). It also amplified a smaller, 550 bp fragment from isolates of F. nygamai (MP-G), but did not amplify DNA of isolates of any other taxon of Fusarium that was tested.
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Database assignments for author(s): Randy C. Ploetz

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.
	Fusarium mangiferae	Mango (Mangifera indica)	U.S.A. (SE)