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PLANT DISEASE
Volume 93, Issue 5, Pages 528-536Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-93-5-0528
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- United States Department of Agriculture - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (USDA-CSREES)
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Ascochyta blight, caused by Ascochyta rabiei (teleomorph: Didymella rabiei), is an important fungal disease of chickpea (Cicer arietinum). A monitoring program was established in 2005 to determine the sensitivity of A. rabiei isolates to the QoI (strobilurin) fungicides azoxystrobin and pyraclostrobin. A total of 403 isolates of A. rabiei front the Northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest were tested. Ninety-eight isolates collected between 2005 and 2007 were tested using an in vitro spore germination assay to determine the effective fungicide concentration at which 50% of conidial germination was inhibited (EC50) for each isolate-fungicide combination. A discriminatory dose of 1 mu g/ml azoxystrobin was established and used to test 305 isolates front 2006 and 2007 for in vitro QoI fungicide sensitivity. Sixty-five percent of isolates collected from North Dakota in 2005, 2006, and 2007 and from Montana in 2007 were found to exhibit a mean 100-fold decrease in sensitivity to both azoxystrobin and pyraclostrobin when compared to sensitive isolates. and were considered to be resistant to azoxystrobin and pyraclostrobin. Under greenhouse conditions. QoI-resistant isolates of A. rabiei caused significantly higher amounts of disease than sensitive isolates oil azoxystrobin- or pyraclostrobin-amended plants. These results suggest that disease control may be inadequate at locations where resistant isolates are present.
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