Scirrhia acicola. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

Author(s):  
E. Punithalingam

Abstract A description is provided for Scirrhia acicola[Mycosphaerella dearnessii]. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On pines, including Pinus palustris, P. tueda, P. halepensis, P. nigra (and varieties), P. pinaster, P. pinea, P. sylvestris, P. thunbergii, P. ponderosa, P. strobus, P. monticola, P. attenuata, P. caribaea, P. elliottii, P. radiata, P. echinata, P. glabra, P. rigida, P. serotina, P. sondereggii, P. virginiana. DISEASE: Brown spot needle blight (11, 813; 41, 185). GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Canada (46, 1929); USA (Southern States, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon, Wisconsin); USSR (Republic of Georgia) (46, 3231). (CMI Map 482, ed. 1, 1971). TRANSMISSION: By splash-dispersed, airborne conidia from infected foliage on the tree or after the needles have been cast. The role of ascospores in spread of brown spot needle blight is not known; endospores (45, 3229) have also been described. The incubation period has been found by various authors to be 28-65 days (46, 2329), 2-3 months for young foliage of P. palustris (40, 636) and 4-7 months for old foliage of P. tueda (46, 3230). Accounts of the effect of age of foliage on susceptibility also vary (40, 636; 46, 3230).

Author(s):  
V. P. Heluta

Abstract A description is provided for Arthrocladiella mougeotii. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. DISEASE: Powdery mildew of Lycium species only. The mycelium, conidiophores, conidia and ascomata form first white, then dirty-grey patches on damaged green parts of the host. Infected parts are deformed slightly and, in cases of high infection, plants can lose their ornamental qualities. Damaged leaves can fall prematurely. HOSTS: Lycium barbarum (= L. europaeum), L. chinense, L. dasystemum, L. halimifolium, L. ovatum, L. potaninii, L. rhombifolium, L. ruthenicum. [Type host - Lycium barbarum] GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Africa: Canary Islands. Asia (temperate areas only): Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Republic of Georgia, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan, Korea, Russia (Russian far east), Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Australasia: New Zealand (introduced). Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine (southern), former Yugoslavia. North America: USA (introduced). TRANSMISSION: By wind-dispersed conidia. The rôle of ascospores in disease transmission is unknown, although it has been supposed that they can cause the initial stage of the disease.


Author(s):  
E. Punithalingam

Abstract A description is provided for Scirrhia pini[Mycosphaerella pini]. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On pines including Pinus radiata and its hybrids, P. halepensis, P. canariensis, P. carbaea, P. ponderosa, P. nigra and others, Pseudotsuga menziesii (46, 2860), Larix decidua (49, 273). DISEASE: Dothistroma blight; red band. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: North America (Canada, USA including Alaska), South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay), Australasia and Oceania (New Zealand), Asia (Brunei, India, Japan), Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rhodesia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda), Europe (Austria, France, Rumania, UK, USSR (Republic of Georgia), Yugoslavia) (CMI Map 419, ed. 2, 1970; record in CMI Herbarium). TRANSMISSION: By airborne conidia released and dispersed by a splash take-off mechanism for short distances. Long distance dispersal may be by transport of infected material, such as nursery stock and, under special conditions, clouds may carry sporal inoculum (43, 2100). Survival time of inoculum in the form of cast, infected foliage on the forest floor is limited to 2-6 months under moist conditions (50, 2003).


Author(s):  
J. C. David

Abstract A description is provided for Cercospora cichorii. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. DISEASE: Leaf spot of chicory. HOSTS: Cichorium endivia, C. intybus (Compositae). GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: AFRICA: Madagascar, South Africa (DOIDGE, 1950), Sudan, Zambia. NORTH AMERICA: Bermuda, USA (Michigan, New York, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin). SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina. ASIA: Azerbaijan, Republic of Georgia, India, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. EUROPE: Greece (52: 2856), Romania (66: 4701), Russia, Ukraine. TRANSMISSION: By wind dispersal of airborne conidia.


2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 587-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalev Adamson ◽  
Rein Drenkhan ◽  
Märt Hanso

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Margarita Georgieva

The brown spot needle blight, caused by the fungal pathogen Lecanosticta acicola, has been the most serious and damaging disease on needles of Pinus spp. in recent years. In Bulgaria, the pathogen was reported for the first time in 2017 in a generative plantation of Pinus sylvestris in the region of the State Forestry Ardino, the Eastern Rhodopes. The newly- established invasive pathogen is considered highly adaptable to new hosts and environmental conditions. The life cycle and symptoms of the disease strongly suggest that the new emerging pathogen has the potential to cause severe damages and is a serious threat to naturally distributed species of Pinus in the country. In the period 2018-2019, a spread of L. acicola from the initial outbreak was established throughout stands of P. sylvestris and P. nigra on the territory of Kardzhali District.


2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 16-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Jankovský ◽  
D. Palovčíková ◽  
M. Dvořák ◽  
M. Tomšovský

There are two records of brown spot needle blight caused by <I>L. acicola</I> in the Czech Republic up to date. Disease was first reported on June 2007 in National Nature Reserve (NNR) Červená Blata, South Bohemia. A more recent discovery of <I>L. acicola</I> took place on August 2008 in the NNR Borkovická Blata. The disease was observed on 10-60 year old <I>Pinus rotundata</I>. Both locations with infected trees are situated inside nature conservation sites under strict protection regimes that are located approximately 50 km apart. In both sites, <I>L. acicola</I> occurred simultaneously with <I>Dothistroma septospora</I>, the red band needle blight causal agent on Scots pine (<I>Pinus sylvestris</I>), bog pine (<I>P. rotundata</I>) and their hybrid (<I>P. × digenea</I>). However, infections of both diseases on the same tree have not yet been observed.


Plant Disease ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
pp. 914-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Seo ◽  
M. J. Park ◽  
J. H. Park ◽  
H. D. Shin

Pinus thunbergii Parl., known as black pine, is a pine native to coastal areas of Japan and Korea. Because of its resistance to pollution and salt, it is planted as windbreakers along the coast. In March 2010, needle blight symptoms were found on several trees of black pine in Naju, southern Korea. Further surveys in 2010 and 2011 showed that these symptoms are rather common but disease incidence is less than 1%. Small, circular grayish green spots first appeared on the needles. The spots developed into brown bands reaching 1 to 2 mm long, sometimes with yellow margins. Dark olivaceous to dark grayish stromata were erumpent and conspicuous on the brown lesions in the later stage of disease development. Conidiophores were simple or occasionally branched, 1- to 2-septate, pale brown to olivaceous brown, and smooth walled. Conidia (n = 30) were olivaceous brown to grayish brown, verrucose, thick-walled, mildly curved, allantoid to fusiform, one- to five-septate (mostly three-septate), and 20 to 45 × 3.5 to 5 μm. Morphological characteristics of the fungus were consistent with those of Lecanosticta acicola (Thüm.) Syd. (anamorph of Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E. Barr), previously known as the causal agent of brown spot needle blight of pines (2,4). The teleomorph was not observed. On potato dextrose agar, single-spore cultures of three isolates were obtained from conidia sporulating on needles. An isolate was preserved at the Korean Agricultural Culture Collection (Accession No. KACC44982). Genomic DNA was extracted using the DNeasy Plant Mini DNA Extraction Kit (Qiagen Inc., Valencia, CA) and the complete internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of rDNA was amplified and sequenced with the primers ITS1/ITS4. The resulting ITS sequence of 543 bp was deposited in GenBank (Accession No. JQ245448). A GenBank BLAST search produced an exact match for the sequences of M. dearnessii (= L. acicola) on P. mugo Tura from Lithuania (HM367708) and P. radiata D. Don from France (GU214663), with 100% sequence similarity. To conduct a pathogenicity test, a conidial suspension (approx. 2 × 105 conidia/ml) was prepared by harvesting conidia from 5-week-old cultures of KACC44982 and sprayed onto the needles of five 3-year-old healthy seedlings. Five noninoculated seedlings of the same age served as controls. Inoculated and noninoculated plants were kept in humid chambers for 48 h in a glasshouse. After 28 days, typical leaf spot symptoms started to develop on the needles of inoculated plants. The fungus, L. acicola, was reisolated from those lesions, confirming Koch's postulates. No symptoms were observed on control plants. The disease has been previously reported on several species of Pinus in the Americas (1) and recently in China (3), Japan (4), and Europe (2). To our knowledge, this is the first report of the Lecanosticta-Pinus association in Korea. Occurrence of the disease in Korea is a new threat to the health of black pine, especially in nursery plots. References: (1) D. F. Farr and A. Y. Rossman. Fungal Databases. Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, ARS, USDA. Retrieved from http://nt.arsgrin.gov/fungaldatabases/ December 2011. (2) L. Jankovsky et al. Plant Protect. Sci. 45:16, 2009. (3) C. Li et al. J. Nanjing Inst. For. 1986:11, 1986. (4) Y. Suto and D. Ougi. Mycoscience 39:319, 1998.


Author(s):  
V. P. Heluta

Abstract A description is provided for Erysiphe convolvuli. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. DISEASE: Powdery mildew of members of the Convolvulaceae only. Mycelium, conidiophores, conidia and ascomata form first white, then dirty-grey layers on damaged leaves. Erysiphe convolvuli can be used as an agent of biocontrol against any Convolvulus species which are malicious weeds. HOSTS: Calystegia hederacea, C. sepium, C. silvatica, C. soldanella, Convolvulus althaeoides, C. ammanii, C. arvensis, C. askabadensis (incl. C. pseudocantabrica), C. divaricatus, C. fruticosus, C. galaticus, C. hamadae, C. hirsutus, C. lineatus, C. pilosellaefolius, C. sagittaefolius, C. scammonia, C. siculus, C. subhirsutus, C. tricolor, Ipomoea batatas (?), I. cymosa (?). [Type host - Convolvulus arvensis] GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Africa: Canary Islands, Egypt, Libya, Morocco. Asia (temperate areas only): Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Cyprus, Republic of Georgia, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan, Korea, Lebanon, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia (north Caucasus, south and southwest Siberia), Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Europe (almost all): Austria, Bulgaria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia (European part), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (European part), UK, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia. North America (introduced). South America: Argentina, Brazil (introduced). TRANSMISSION: By wind-dispersed conidia. The rôle of ascospores in disease transmission is unknown, although it has been supposed that they can cause the initial stage of the disease.


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