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PLANT DISEASE
Volume 105, Issue 3, Pages 548-557Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-04-20-0800-RE
Keywords
aggressiveness; cereal crops; cross-pathogenicity; Fusarium root rot; Fusarium spp.; pulse crops; small grain cereals
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- Montana Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant Program [18SC00701]
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Research indicates that various Fusarium species from seeds and roots can cause root rot in pulse growing regions of Montana. Certain isolates show high aggressiveness on different crops, with some even exhibiting cross-pathogenicity.
Root rot caused by Fusarium species is a major problem in the pulse growing regions of Montana. Fusarium isolates (n = 112) were obtained from seeds and roots of chickpea, dry pea, and lentil. Isolates were identified by comparing the sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region and the translation elongation factor 1-alpha in Fusarium-ID database. Fusarium avenaceum was the most abundant species (28%), followed by F. acuminatum (21%), F. poae (13%), F. oxysporum (8%), F. culmorum (6%), F. redolens (6%), F. sporotrichioides (6%), F. solani (4%), F. graminearum (2%), F. torulosum (2%), and F. tricinctum (0.9%). The aggressiveness of a subset of 50 isolates that represent various sources of isolation was tested on three pulse crops and two cereal crops. Nonparametric analysis of variance conducted on ranks of disease severity indicated that F. avenaceum and F. solani isolates were highly aggressive on pea and chickpea. In lentil, F. avenaceum and F. culmorum were highly aggressive. In barley, F. avenaceum, F. solani, F. culmorum, and F. graminearum were highly aggressive. In wheat, F. avenaceum, F. graminearum, and F. culmorum were highly aggressive. Two F. avenaceum isolates were highly aggressive across all the crops tested and found to be cross-pathogenic. One isolate of F. culmorum and an isolate of F. graminearum obtained from chickpea and lentil seed were highly aggressive on barley and wheat. The results indicate that multiple Fusarium spp. from seeds and roots can cause root rot on both pulse and cereal crops. Rotating these crops may still lead to an increase in inoculum levels, making crop rotation limited in efficacy as a disease management strategy.
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