Role of foliage component and host age on severity of Alternaria leaf spot (caused by Alternaria japonica and A. brassicae) in canola (Brassica napus) and mustard (B. juncea) and yield loss in canola
H. F. D. Al-lami A B , M. P. You A and M. J. Barbetti
A C
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A School of Agriculture and Environment and the UWA Institute of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
B Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq.
C Corresponding author. Email: martin.barbetti@uwa.edu.au
Crop and Pasture Science 70(11) 969-980 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP19262
Submitted: 1 July 2019 Accepted: 8 October 2019 Published: 20 November 2019
Abstract
Studies were undertaken under controlled conditions into the effects of different foliage components (cotyledon, first, second and third leaf) at three plant ages (3, 5 and 7 weeks old) on development of Alternaria leaf spot disease, caused by Alternaria japonica or A. brassicae, in canola (Brassica napus cv. Thunder TT) and mustard (B. juncea cv. Dune). Alternaria japonica generally showed percentage disease index (%DI) values similar to A. brassicae across the two Brassica species, different foliage components and plant ages. %DI from either pathogen was greater in older plants than younger plants for the same foliage components in both cultivars. Field studies were then undertaken with canola to compare disease development from A. japonica and A. brassicae across different plant components (leaf, pod and stem) and the consequent adverse impact on seed yield. Alternaria japonica was more severe in terms of leaf area diseased (%LAD 62.6) and stem area diseased (%SAD 69.8) than pod area diseased (%PAD 25.5), whereas A. brassicae was more severe on leaves (%LAD 61.9) than on pods (%PAD 47.4) or stems (%SAD 41.0). Stem disease incidence was greater for A. japonica (%SDI 94.0) than for A. brassicae (%SDI 56.5), but pod disease incidence was greater for A. brassicae (%PDI 93.5) than for A. japonica (%PDI 86.1). For A. japonica, AUDPC values of leaf disease incidence (LDI, 283.5), leaf area diseased (LAD, 253.3) and leaf collapse (LCI, 149.5) resulted in a yield loss of 58.1%, similar to A. brassicae, where AUDPC values of LDI (277.8), LAD (247.2) and LCI (111.0) caused a yield loss of 59.4%. These findings explain observed acceleration of Alternaria leaf spot severity from A. japonica, as from A. brassicae, through the growing season as plants become more susceptible with increasing age, and as more susceptible, later developing leaves become abundant. For the first time, we demonstrate that under conducive field conditions for disease development, A. japonica can cause serious seed-yield losses of a magnitude similar to those occurring with A. brassicae.
Additional keyword: host age.
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