Mycobiology.  2010 Dec;38(4):316-320.

First Report of Foliar Blight on Dendropanax morbifera Caused by Alternaria panax

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Korea. shunyu@cnu.ac.kr
  • 2Korea Forest Research Institute, Seoul 130-712, Korea.

Abstract

Leaf spot and blight disease was observed on two-year-old seedlings of Dendropanax morbifera (Korean name: Hwangchil tree) during July of 2008 in Jindo Island, Korea. Symptoms included yellow-brown to dark brown irregularly enlarged spots frequently located along the veins of leaves. The lesions were often surrounded by chlorotic haloes. Severe leaf blight and subsequent defoliation occurred when conditions favored disease outbreak. The causal organism of the disease was identified as Alternaria panax based on morphological characteristics and sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region of rDNA. A. panax isolates induced leaf spots and blight symptoms not only on D. morbifera but also on the other members of Araliaceae tested. This is the first report of foliar blight caused by A. panax on D. morbifera.

Keyword

Alternaria panax; Araliaceae; Dendropanax morbifera; Identification; Pathogenicity

MeSH Terms

Alternaria
Araliaceae
Disease Outbreaks
DNA, Ribosomal
Korea
Panax
Seedlings
Sequence Analysis
Veins
DNA, Ribosomal
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