文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Lin, Jixiu ¹ ; Yang, Chuanyu ¹ ; Liu, Jianmi ³ ; Yu, Shaoshuai ⁴ ; Xing, Jichun ⁵ ; Huang, Peizhi ² ; Chen, Wenle ³ ; Bao ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Guangxi Univ, Coll Agr Sci, Nanning 530005, Peoples R China

2.Yongan Crop Protect & Quarantine Stn, Yongan 366000, Fujian, Peoples R China

3.Sanming Crop Protect & Quarantine Stn, Sanming 365000, Fujian, Peoples R China

4.Chinese Acad Trop Agr Sci, Coconut Res Inst, Wenchang 571339, Hainan, Peoples R China

5.Guizhou Univ, Inst Entomol, Guiyang 550025, Peoples R China

关键词： Lettuce chlorotic leaf rot disease (LCLRD); Phytoplasma; Leafhopper

期刊名称：CROP PROTECTION （ 影响因子：2.571； 五年影响因子：3.11 ）

ISSN： 0261-2194

年卷期： 2020 年 138 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is an important vegetable crop that is produced commercially in many countries. Lettuce chlorotic leaf rot disease (LCLRD) was first reported in China in 2005, and in 2008, a severe outbreak in Yongan county occurred with an incidence of approximately 25%, causing significant economic losses. However, the causal agent, insect vector, and alternative hosts of this disease are still unknown. The results from the phylogenetic tree and virtual RFLP patterns of the 168 F2nR2 region showed that the phytoplasma associated with LCLRD was more related to the 16SrI-B subgroup with 99% nucleotide identity and a similarity coefficient of over 0.97. Only leafhopper Macrosteles striifrons could transmit LCLRD phytoplasma to the healthy lettuce plants under experimental conditions. Six out of 52 plant hosts, which were collected from some of the fields, could harbor phytoplasma, but only the chinaberry tree (Melia azedarach) might serve as an alternative host with a similarity coefficient of 1.0 to LCLRD phytoplasma. The other hosts of the head lettuce, pepper, and sweet potato could also harbor the phytoplasma, which had the same KpnI digestion profiles from leafhopper of Deltocephalinar spp.. Interestingly, the phytoplasmas from wild and longleaf lettuce belonged to the subgroup of 165XII-A, which was not detected in leafhoppers in this study. Identification and characterization of the LCLRD agent, its insect vector, and alternative host plants are useful for developing strategies to control this phytoplasma-induced disease in lettuce.