文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Liu, Shusen ¹ ; Wang, Jinhui ³ ; Guo, Ning ¹ ; Sun, Hua ¹ ; Ma, Hongxia ¹ ; Zhang, Haijian ¹ ; Shi, Jie ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Hebei Acad Agr & Forestry Sci, IPM Integrated Pest Management Ctr Hebei Prov Key, Plant Protect Inst, Baoding 071000, Peoples R China

2.Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Key Lab IPM Crops Northern Reg North China, Baoding 071000, Peoples R China

3.Hebei Agr Univ, Coll Plant Protect, Baoding 071001, Peoples R China

关键词： fungicides; maize ear rot; pathogenicity; Talaromyces funiculosus

期刊名称：PLANT DISEASE （ 影响因子：4.614； 五年影响因子：5.33 ）

ISSN： 0191-2917

年卷期： 2021 年 105 卷 12 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Ear rot is one of the most prevalent and destructive diseases of maize. During field surveys, it was found that a Penicillium ear rot broke out in some areas of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, and Tianjin in China, with an incidence of 3 to 90%. A Penicillium sp. was isolated from diseased kernels covered with greyish green mold, and three isolates were identified by morphologic and molecular characteristics. The pathogenicity of isolate ZBS205 to maize ears was further determined by artificial inoculation in a field. Furthermore, the sensitivity of isolate ZBS205 against six commonly used fungicides was also evaluated. According to macro- and micromorphologic characteristics, isolate ZBS205 was generally identical to Talaromyces funiculosus (teleomorph of Penicillium funiculosum). The partial gene sequences of the nuclear ribosomal ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 (ITS) region, beta-tubulin, putative ribosome biogenesis protein (Tsr1), and the second largest subunit of the RNA polymerase II (RPB2) from isolates ZBS205, D49-1, and S73-1 showed the highest nucleotide identity to T. funiculosus strain X33, and the phylogenetic analysis conducted by the neighbor-joining method with the combined data of the four genes demonstrated that these three isolates clustered with T. funiculosus strain X33. These results suggested that the fungus isolated from diseased maize kernels was T. funiculosus. Pathogenicity testing showed that the T. funiculosus isolate ZBS205 was pathogenic to maize ears, which showed symptoms of rotted cob and deteriorated kernels. This is the first report of T. funiculosus as the definitive pathogen causing maize ear rot. The result of fungal sensitivity against fungicides showed that pyraclostrobin exhibited the highest toxicity to mycelial growth and could be used as a candidate agent for the prevention and control of T. funiculosus ear rot. The results of the present study provide a basis for understanding ear rot caused by T. funiculosus, and they should play an important role in disease management.