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Morphological and molecular identification of Fusarium incarnatum as the causal agent of potato dry rot disease

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Plant Protection

Abstract

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L., family Solanaceae), is one of the most widely consumed vegetable crops worldwide. Several phytopathogenic fungi target potato tubers during storage. Dry rot disease caused by several species of Fusarium is considered one of the most serious threats to potato tuber crops under normal or cold conditions. Herein, we isolated, characterized, and identified three isolates of Fusarium associated with dry rot of potato tubers. The morphological character-ization and microscopic examination revealed that all isolates belong to the Fusari-um genus. Moreover, all isolates were pathogenic and displayed the typical symptoms of dry rot disease on potato tuber 20 days post-inoculation. However, only one isolate (isolate #3), was the most aggressive and caused the maximum lesion di-ameter (28.00±2.00 mm) and depth (31.67±2.89 mm) in comparison to other isolates (8±2.00, 14.67±1.53, 9.67±0.58 and 13.67±1.53mm for lesion diameter and depth respectively). The most virulent isolate was subjected to further studies such as mo-lecular identification using an internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and phyloge-netic analysis. Molecular identification showed that the tested isolate had high simi-larity with Fusarium incarnatum isolate CM9 (Gen Bank Accession No. MN186812.1; 522pb) subsequently, the sequence of this isolate (isolate #3) was up-loaded in the GenBank database under the name F. incarnatum isolate AE 2024 (GenBank Accession No. PP086049; 528 pb). Our findings suggest that one of the best ways to control plant diseases such as dry rot disease is to identify (species lev-el) of the pathogen accurately.

DOI

10.21608/jsaes.2024.312734.1096

Keywords

potato, dry rot, Fusarium rot, Postharvest diseases

Authors

First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

El-Nagar

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S

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Email

asmaa.elnagar@agr.tanta.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0003-4019-9918

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdel Wahab

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt

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mohamedhassan7869@gmail.com

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First Name

Abdelnaser

Last Name

Elzaawely

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Email

elzaawely@agr.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

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-

First Name

Hassan

Last Name

El-zahaby

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Agriculture botany department, faculty of agriculture, Tanta university, Tanta, Egypt

Email

hzahaby@yahoo.com

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Volume

3

Article Issue

4

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49119

Issue Date

2024-09-01

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2024-08-15

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2024-09-01

Page Start

68

Page End

73

Print ISSN

2735-4377

Online ISSN

2785-9878

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https://jsaes.journals.ekb.eg/article_382357.html

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1,858

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Publication Title

Journal of Sustainable Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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https://jsaes.journals.ekb.eg/

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Morphological and molecular identification of Fusarium incarnatum as the causal agent of potato dry rot disease

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28 Dec 2024