Characterization of iprodione-resistant Alternaria isolates from pistachio in California
2004
Ma, Z. | Michailides, T.J.
Alternaria late blight caused by Alternaria spp. in the alternata, tenuissima, and arborescens species-groups is one of the most common fungal diseases of pistachio in California. In this study, a field iprodione-resistant (FIR) isolate of the arborescens species-group and a laboratory-induced iprodione-resistant (LIIR) isolate of the alternata species-group were characterized by fungicide and osmotic sensitivity, virulence on detached pistachio leaflets, and sequence of the coiled-coil region (six repeats of approximately 90-amino-acid domain) of the two-component histidine kinase (HK) gene. Both FIR and LIIR isolates were sensitive to azoxystrobin and tebuconazole, and azoxystrobin-resistant isolates were sensitive to iprodione and tebuconazole. The LIIR isolate showed more sensitivity to osmotic stress than its wild-type parent. However, the FIR isolate did not show higher osmotic sensitivity compared to field iprodione-sensitive (FIS) isolates. Laboratory inoculation tests showed that both FIR and LIIR isolates remained highly virulent on pistachio. Analysis of DNA sequences of the HK coiled-coil region showed that there were no differences in deduced amino acid sequence of this region from the LIIR, FIR, and FIS Alternaria isolates from pistachio in California.
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