›› 2019, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (7): 1112-1118.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2019.07.11

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Pathogen identification of bacterial fruit blotch of melon on sweet potato in Zhejiang Province

HONG Xianxian1, WU Xiuqin1, LUO Jinyan2, WANG Yanli3, SUN Guocang3, AN Qianli1, QIU Wen1,*, LI Bin1   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China;
    2. Shanghai Agriculture Technology Extension & Service Center, Shanghai 201103, China;
    3. Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
  • Received:2018-12-13 Online:2019-07-25 Published:2019-08-07

Abstract: Bacterial stem and root rot of sweet potato is an important quarantine disease. In the current study, four isolates of suspected diseased sweet potato induced a hypersensitive response on tobacco plants. These isolates were then identified into Acidovorax citrulli (formerly Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli) based on morphology, Gram's stain reaction, 16S rRNA sequence and pathogenicity analysis. Results here showed that the sequence homology of the novel isolates was as high as 99.00%-100.00% compared with A. citrulli, the bacterial pathogen of bacterial fruit blotch of cucurbits, which was the key quarantine pathogen of China. The current report indicated the importance of disease management for efficient controlling of bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon in Zhejiang Province.

Key words: sweet potato, Acidovorax citrulli, bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon, identification, quarantine

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