First record of Corynespora leaf fall disease of Hevea rubber tree in China

Pu Jinji; Zhang Xin; Qi Yangxian; Xie Yixian; Zhang Huiqiang; Zhang He

doi:10.1071/DN07017

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First record of Corynespora leaf fall disease of Hevea rubber tree in China

Pu Jinji ^A , Zhang Xin ^A , Qi Yangxian ^A , Xie Yixian ^A ^B , Zhang Huiqiang ^A and Zhang He ^A

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^A Hainan Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Management of Pests of Tropical Agriculture, Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou, Hainan 571737, P.R. China.

^B Corresponding author. Email: yixian81@126.com

Australasian Plant Disease Notes 2(1) 35-36 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN07017
Submitted: 18 January 2007 Accepted: 14 March 2007 Published: 29 March 2007

Abstract

Corynespora cassiicola has been found for the first time in China on Hevea rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) in south China during a survey in 2006. Symptoms on leaves included fishbone necrosis and spots. Sequence data from the ribosomal ITS operon placed the isolates within the Corynespora cassiicola complex.

Acknowledgements

This work was partly supported by the grants 2004DIA4J012 and 2006NKJ-5 from the Ministry of Agriculture, and Ministry of Science and Technology, the People’s Republic of China, respectively. We thank Professor Huang Huasun, Director of Rubber Research Institute of CATAS, for offering Hevea rubber clones used in the pathogenicity trials.

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