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PLANT DISEASE
Volume 105, Issue 4, Pages 972-977Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-06-20-1414-RE
Keywords
chemical; disease management; fruit; Oomycota; Phytophthora citrophthora; Phytophthora nicotianae; Phytophthora syringae; postharvest; preharvest; tree fruits
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- Citrus Research Board (CRB) [5600-103]
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Phytophthora citrophthora, P. syringae, and P. nicotianae are causal agents of brown rot on citrus fruits in California. Potassium phosphite is used to manage the disease, but different isolates of the pathogens show varying levels of resistance to it. Pre- and postharvest treatments with different fungicides, such as oxathiapiprolin, are effective in controlling the disease caused by different isolates of the pathogens.
Phytophthora citrophthora, P. syringae, P. nicotianae, and less commonly P. hibernalis are causal agents of brown rot of citrus fruit in California. The chronic disease occurs during the winter season, requires annual management, and has limited California citrus exports because of quarantines in some markets. Potassium phosphite (KPO3) is registered as a pre- and postharvest fungicide in the United States to manage Phytophthora brown rot. We evaluated the in vitro toxicity of KPO3 to 65, 60, and 38 isolates of P. citrophthora, P. syringae, and P. nicotianae, respectively, that were obtained from major growing regions of California. Frequency distributions of effective concentrations to inhibit mycelial growth by 50% (EC50 values) were not normally distributed, with skewness values of 1.84, 1.60, and -0.51 for each species, respectively. Isolates considered sensitive (EC50 values <25 mu g/ml), moderately resistant (EC50 values from 25 to 75 mu g/ml), or resistant (EC50 values >75 mu g/ml) were identified for each species. The majority of P. citrophthora (83.1%) and P. syringae (78.3%) isolates were sensitive, whereas most P. nicotianae isolates (86.8%) were moderately resistant or resistant. Resistance factors were calculated as 65, 19, and 10 for the three species, respectively. In preharvest field trials, KPO3 (2,280 g/ha) applications were not effective in reducing citrus brown rot incidence when orange fruit were inoculated with a resistant (EC50 = 161.9 mu g/ml) isolate of P. citrophthora, demonstrating the potential for field resistance. Oxathiapiprolin (32.6 g/ha), however, was highly effective, indicating the absence of multidrug resistance. Postharvest treatments with KPO3 were only effective in reducing brown rot caused by the resistant isolate of P. citrophthora to a low incidence when high rates (8,000 mu g/ml) were used in heated (54 degrees C) applications. The sensitive and moderately resistant isolates were managed using rates of 4,000 mg/ml, but heated treatments at this rate were needed to reduce brown rot to commercially acceptable levels when decay was caused by a moderately resistant isolate.
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