First report of leaf spot caused by Alternaria alternata on Drimia maritima

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 83 - Trang 398-401 - 2017
Shima Bagherabadi1, Doustmorad Zafari1, Yousef Moradi Amirabad1, Joyce H. C. Woudenberg2
1Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bu-Ali Sina, Hamadan, Iran
2Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Tóm tắt

Drimia maritima (squill) is a historically important medicinal plant. During the spring of 2016, small, yellow leaf spots, which became brown and finally necrotic, were observed on squill plants in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Provinces in Iran. A fungus was consistently isolated from infected leaves and identified as Alternaria alternata based on morphological and phylogenetic analyses. Pathogenicity tests confirmed A. alternata to be the causal agent of the newly observed leaf spot disease. This is the first report of leaf spot on D. maritima caused by A. alternata in the world.

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