期刊
PLANTS-BASEL
卷 10, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants10051002
关键词
Plenodomus tracheiphilus; tolerance; molecular markers; phenotyping
资金
- Project 'Sviluppo di Induttori di Resistenza a Patogeni Vascolari negli Agrumi' (S.I.R.P.A.)
- Project 'Fruit Crops Resilience to Climate Change in the Mediterranean Basin' (FREECLIMB)
- Project 'Valutazione di genotipi di agrumi per l'individuazione di fonti di resistenza a stress biotici e abiotici' (Linea 2 del Piano della Ricerca di Ateneo 2020, University of Catania)
- Fondi di Ateneo 2020-2022, University of Catania, linea Open Access
Among Citrus species, lemon is highly susceptible to mal secco disease caused by the mitosporic fungus Plenodomus tracheiphilus. Developing lemon varieties with both tolerance to mal secco and optimal fruit quality remains a challenge due to the lack of effective control strategies and incomplete understanding of genetic resistance. Biotechnological approaches and marker-trait association analysis show promise in addressing these challenges.
Among Citrus species, lemon is one of the most susceptible to mal secco disease, a tracheomycosis caused by the mitosporic fungus Plenodomus tracheiphilus, which induces chlorosis followed by leaf drop and progressive desiccation of twigs and branches. Severe infection can cause the death of the plant. Since no effective control strategies are available to efficiently control the pathogen spread, host tolerance is the most desirable goal in the struggle against mal secco disease. To date, both traditional breeding programs and biotechnological techniques were not efficient in developing novel varieties coupling tolerance to mal secco with optimal fruit quality. Furthermore, the genetic basis of host resistance has not been fully deciphered yet, hampering the set-up of marker-assisted selection (MAS) schemes. This paper provides an overview of the biotechnological approaches adopted so far for the selection of mal secco tolerant lemon varieties and emphasizes the promising contribution of marker-trait association analysis techniques for both unraveling the genetic determinism of the resistance to mal secco and detecting molecular markers that can be readily used for MAS. Such an approach has already proved its efficiency in several crops and could represent a valuable tool to select novel lemon varieties coupling superior fruit quality traits and resistance to mal secco.
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