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Revista mexicana de fitopatología
On-line version ISSN 2007-8080Print version ISSN 0185-3309
Rev. mex. fitopatol vol.33 n.2 Texcoco 2015
Scientific Articles
Anthracnose ( Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Penz.) of litchi fruit ( Litchi chinensis Soon.) in Oaxaca, México
1Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias. Campo experimental Rosario Izapa. Km. 18 carretera Tapachula-Cacahoatán, Tuxtla chico, Chiapas; México.
2Colegio de Postgraduados, km. 36.5 carretera México-Texcoco, Montecillo, Texcoco, CP 56230, México.
3Colegio de Postgraduados, km. 88.5 carretera Xalapa-Veracruz, CP 91690 Tepetates, Manlio Fabio Altamirano, Mexico.
4Universidad del Papaloapan. Campus Tuxtepec. Circuito Central # 200. Colonia Parque Industrial. CP 68301, Tuxtepec, México.
Anthracnose of litchi fruits was characterized by internal and external brown circular lesions with well-defined margins on the pericarp, but not on the aril or seed. Colletotrichum sp., Pestalotiopsis sp., Fusarium sp., and Lasiodiplodia sp. were isolated from symptomatic fruit pericarp samples of cultivars Mauritius and Brewster in 2008-2010 cycles. Colletotrichum sp. (51 %) and Pestalotiopsis sp. (17 %) were isolated more frequently from symptomatic fruit pericarp samples of cultivar Mauritius in 2009. Colletotrichum sp. was isolated on PDA (39 %) and in semi-selective medium (59 %) from symptomatic Mauritius fruit pericarp samples in 2010, and from asymptomatic pericarp Brewster samples in 2009 (32 %) and 2010 (21 %) on PDA and 10 % in semi-selective medium; however it was not isolated from asymptomatic Mauritius pericarp in neither of the two harvesting years. Only Colletotrichum sp., reproduced the disease in the laboratory (17 out of 20 inoculated fruits) and in the field (19 out of 20 inoculated fruits). The fungus was morphologically and molecularly identified as Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Penz.
Keywords: Brewster; incidence; Mauritius; pathogenicity; PCR; pericarp
La antracnosis de frutos de litchi se caracterizó como lesiones internas y externas, obscuras, circulares con márgenes definidos en el pericarpio, pero no en el arilo y semilla. Colletotrichum sp., Pestalotiopsis sp., Fusarium sp., y Lasiodiplodia sp., se aislaron de muestras de pericarpio sintomático de los cultivares Mauritius y Brewster en los ciclos 2008-2010. Colletotrichum sp. (51 %) y Pestalotiopsis sp. (17 %) se aislaron más frecuentemente de muestras de pericarpio de frutos sintomáticos del cultivar Mauritius en 2009. Colletotrichum sp., se aisló en PDA (39 %) y en medio semiselectivo (59 %) de muestras de pericarpio sintomático en el cultivar Mauritius en 2010, y de pericarpio asintomático del cultivar en 2009 (32 %) y 2010 (21 %) sobre PDA y 10% en medio semiselectivo; sin embargo no se aisló de pericarpio asintomático del cultivar Mauritius en ninguno de los dos años de cosecha. Sólo Colletotrichum sp., reprodujo la enfermedad en laboratorio (17 de 20 frutos inoculados) y en campo (19 de 20 frutos inoculados). El hongo se identificó morfológica y molecularmente como Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Penz.
Palabras clave: Brewster; incidencia; Mauritius; patogenicidad; PCR; pericarpio
Palabras clave: Brewster; incidencia; Mauritius; patogenicidad; PCR; pericarpio
Introduction
Litchi (Litchi chinensis Soon) is a subtropical fruit (Coates et al., 1994) native to southern China and southeast Asia; its pericarp is thin and rough, and when fruits get ripe, it becomes red and cracked due to the presence of brachysclereids, which could be associated with protection against mechanical damage or physiological stress (Nacif et al., 2001). The aril is white and covers a dark brown seed.
The main problems in litchi production are low or irregular yields due to excessive fruit drop (Mitra et al., 2005); oxidation and cracking of the pericarp (Huang et al., 2001; Xu et al., 2005); pest damages caused by C. gloeosporioides Penz (Campbell and Campbell, 2001), Peronophythora litchii Chen Ex Ko, Tessaratoma papillosa Drury and Dasineura sp., and high harvesting and packaging costs (Xu et al., 2005).
Litchi production in Mexico is 19,888.05 tons, in an area of 3,738.48 hectares (SIAP, 2013). In Oaxaca, Mexico, Brewster and Mauritius cultivars are commercially grown in the Papaloapan and Bajos Mixes regions, respectively. In both cultivars, a regular dark brown spot on the pericarp represents one of the main problems under field and postharvest conditions. Field symptoms are characterized by brown and dry semicircular lesions; the aril and seed show no damages. No records have been found about its cause and importance in Mexico so far; however, Oaxaca farmers report damages of up to 50% in production. Taking in to account the socioeconomic importance of this problem, the objective of this study was to determine the etiology of the brown spot of litchi fruits in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Materials and Methods
The experiment was established in commercial litchi orchards in three counties of Oaxaca State during the 2008-2010 production cycles. Brewster and Mauritius cultivars were evaluated in San Jose Chiltepec (17° 57' 57.92" N, 96° 10' 11.68" W), and in San Juan Cotzocón (17° 26' 07.74" N, 95° 19' 53.97" W) and Loma Bonita (17° 58' 53.1" N, 95° 50' 58.1" W), respectively.
Symptoms and fungi characterization. Symptomatic (natural infection) and asymptomatic commercial ripe fruits from Brewster and Mauritius cultivars were collected in May 2009 in one commercial litchi orchard in San José Chiltepec and San Juan Cotzocón, respectively. One hundred fruits from each cultivar were randomly collected from 25 trees and then, washed with soap and water in the laboratory, air dried at room temperature, and longitudinally sectioned. Symptom consistence, shape, and color were evaluated on pericarp, aril, seed, and peduncle, as well as the presence of chlorotic haloes and signs of associated microorganisms.
To characterize fungal isolates, 123 symptomatic and 195 asymptomatic Brewster fruits were harvested in 2008-2009, and 60 and 70 in 2009-2010. Then, 193 symptomatic and 72 asymptomatic Mauritius fruits were sampled in 2008-2009, and 102 and 96 in 2009-2010. Two 1.5 cm2 sections of pericarp and aril were dissected from each fruit and disinfested in 1.5 % sodium hypochlorite for three min, rinsed three times in distilled water for 1 min each, and dried with sterile paper towels. Tissue sections were cultured on PDA (Bioxon(tm)) and on a Colletotrichum semi-selective medium [19.5 g PDA, 7.5 g agar (Merck(tm)), 8 mg iprodione, 20 mg triadimefon, 50 mg chloramphenicol (Merck(tm)), and 200 mg streptomycin ] (Davis, 2003) for 5-7 days at 25 °C under fluorescent light. Fungal growths were purified by hyphal tip and monoconidial cultures.
Pathogenicity tests. Colletotrichum, Pestalotiopsis, Fusarium, and Lasiodiplodia were isolated from all the Brewster and Mauritius pericarp symptomatic samples and their pathogenicity was tested under laboratory and field conditions.
Laboratory pathogenicity test was evaluated in asymptomatic and commercially ripe Mauritius fruit collected in field in May 2010. Twenty disinfested fruits were wounded with a sterile needle and a 0.5 cm agar disc with Colletotrichum, Pestalotiopsis, Fusarium, or Lasiodiplodia was placed on each wound (Johnson and Cooke, 2002). Control fruits (mockinoculated) were inoculated with a 0.5 cm agar disc without mycelia. All inoculated fruits were maintained under humidity chamber conditions at 28 °C±2 for 7 days. Observations were done every 24 h to detect symptoms.
Pathogenicity under field conditions was evaluated in May and June 2010 on 20 asymptomatic Mauritius fruits per tree (5 fruits/cardinal point). Two development stages were evaluated: at the beginning of ripening, and commercially ripe fruits. Fruits were disinfested with 70 % ethanol and wounded with a sterile needle in the middle of the fruit and at the base of the peduncle. Fruits were individually inoculated at evening (18:00 - 20:00 central time) by injecting 0.5 ml of a 1 x 106 conidia.ml-1 suspension of Colletotrichum, Pestalotiopsis, Fusarium, Lasiodiplodia or sterile distilled water (mockinoculated) (Dinh et al., 2003). Inoculated wounds were covered with wet sterile cotton for 24 h to create high humidity conditions for fungal growth. Symptom development was registered for 15 days. Re-isolates from laboratory and field infected fruits were made to verify Koch's postulates.
Morphological characterization of the pathogen. Four out of 256 Colletotrichum isolates obtained from symptomatic fruits were selected based on their mycelia growth and spore production, and designed as M26, M28, M29, and M30. Genus (Sutton, 1980; Hanlin, 1990; Barnett and Hunter, 2006) and species (Sutton, 1980; Smith and Black, 1990; Photita et al., 2005) were determined from monoconidial colonies. Appressorium formation was induced on PDA cover slides inoculated individually with M26 and M28-M30 spores (Johnston and Jones, 1997). Appressorium shape and size were characterized a 7 day old fungal culture on PDA.
M26 and M28-M30 growth rates were evaluated for seven days on PDA plates cultured at 28 °C. Data were statistically analyzed by ANOVA (α=0.05) and grouped by Tukey test (SAS, 1997).
Molecular identification. M26 and M28-M30 DNA was isolated following the AP method (Sambrook and Russel, 2001). DNA integrity was electrophoresed on a 1% agar gel at 80 volts for 40 min in TBE buffer, and stained with ethidium bromide. ITS1 and ITS2 regions were amplified by PCR with primers ITS4 (5′-TCCTCCGCTTATTGATATGC-3′) and ITS5 (5′-GGAAGTAAAAGTCGTAACAAGG-3′) (White et al., 1990), which amplify a 580 bp fragment. To identify and confirm species, DNA was amplified with ITS4 and the CgInt (5′-GGCCTCCCGCCTCCGGGCGG-3′) specific primer (Mills et al., 1992), which amplify a 450 bp fragment.
PCR amplification was done in a thermocycler (Applied BiosystemsTM 2720) in a 25 µl reaction with 1.0 µl of each primer (10 mM), 1.0 µl of dNTP (10 mM), 5 µl of PCR Buffer 10X, 2.5 µl of MgCl2 (50 mM), 0.5 µl of Taq Polymerase, 0.5 µl of DNA and 13.5 µl of nuclease-free water. PCR reactions without tempered were used as negative control.
PCR consisted of an initial denaturation of 5 min at 95 °C followed by 35 cycles of 1 min of denaturation at 95 °C, 1 min of annealing at 57 °C, and 1 min of extension at 72 °C, with a final extension of 10 min at 72 °C. PCR products were electrophoresed on a 1 % agarose gel, purified with the QUIAGEN DNeasy Plant Kit and sequenced in a 3730XL automated sequencer. The sequences were lined up against sequences in the gene bank and homology was determined in the National Center for Biological Information (BLAST, 2011).
Results
Symptom characterization. The Brewster exocarp showed a dark brown lesion without chlorotic halo (Figure 1A). On the endocarp, the lesion was a dark brown circular, and semi-humid depressed spot without chlorotic halo (Figure 1B). On Mauritius exocarp it developed a dark brown well defined lesion with chlorotic halo (Figure 1D); and on the endocarp a dry dark brown non-depressed spot was identified (Figure 1E). None of the Brewster and Mauritius fruits showed damages on the aril (Figure 1C and 1F ), seed, or peduncle, and no signs of microorganisms were observed.
Fungi isolation. Colletotrichum sp., Pestalotiopsis sp., Fusarium sp., and Lasiodiplodia sp. were isolated from symptomatic Brewster and Mauritius pericarps in the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 production cycles. However, Colletotrichum sp. (256/640 isolates) and Pestalotiopsis sp. (71/640 isolates) were isolated more frequently than the other ones (Table 1 and 2 ). Colletotrichum sp., Pestalotiopsis sp., and Lasiodiplodia sp. were also isolated from Brewster asymptomatic pericarps (Table 1); and Fusarium from asymptomatic Mauritius samples (Table 2). Colletotrichum sp. grew on more pericarp tissue fragments incubated on semi-selective medium than those cultured on PDA (Table 1 and 2 ). Colletotrichum sp. isolates produced conidia on 4 and on 8-12 day old semi-selective and PDA cultures, respectively. No microorganisms were isolated from aril tissue fragments incubated on both growth media (Table 1 and 2 ).
In 13 of 15 sections of pericarp incubated in humidity chamber there was conidia production on the fifth day; the salmon colored conidia masses were morphologically identified as Colletotrichum sp.
Pathogenicity tests. Laboratory test results showed that 85 % (17 out of 20) of the fruits inoculated with Colletotrichum sp. developed symptoms on the pericarp similar to those observed in the field. These symptoms appeared 72 h after inoculation as a small light brown circular lesion (Figure 1G). On the endocarp it was developed a dark brown circular and semi-humid lesion (Figure 1H). Mock inoculated fruits (Figure 1I) and fruits inoculated with Fusarium sp., Pestalotiopsis sp., or Lasiodiplodia sp. did not show any symptom.
In the field, symptoms developed in 95 % (19 out of 20) of the commercial ripe Mauritius fruits inoculated with Colletotrichum sp. on the middle of the pericarp in May, and 90 % in June. Symptoms were observed eight days after inoculation as dark brown lesions on the pericarp (Figure 1J). Symptom on the endocarp was a dark brown circular and depressed lesion (Figure 1K).
Mock inoculated fruits (Figure 1L) and fruits inoculated with Fusarium sp., Pestalotiopsis sp., or Lasiodiplodia sp. did not show any symptoms.
The Colletotrichum isolate that induced anthracnose symptoms under laboratory and field conditions was re-isolated and identified morphologically as C. gloeosporioides (Sutton, 1980).
Pathogen characterization and identification. Most (193) of the 256 isolates of C. gloeosporioides formed white-light gray scarcely cottony mycelia with abundant bright orange conidial masses in concentric circles (Figure 2A, 2D and 2G ). Some (78) of them produced white mycelium with very few conidial masses near to the transference point (Figure 2J). Four out of these 256 isolates were designed as M26, M28, M29 and M30.
M26 and M28-M30 conidia were cylindrical (Table 3 and Figure 2B, 2E , 2H and 2K ). M26 conidia were statistically longer than M28 ones, which had the greatest diameter (Table 3). The four isolates formed clavate appressoria (Figure 2C, 2F , 2I and 2L ). There were not differences among the mycelium growth rates of the four isolates cultured at 28 °C on PDA (α= 0.05) (Table 3).
Molecular identification. ITS4-ITS5 and ITS4-CgInt primers amplified a fragment of 580 and 450 bp, respectively, which indicated that M26 and M28-M30 isolates belong to C. gloeosporioides (Figure 3).
M26 and M28-M30 amplicons were sequenced and aligned with those in the GenBank, and gave a homology of 96, 93, 99, and 99 % with C. gloeosporioides, respectively (gb/HM016794.1; gb/JF487788.1; gb/JF487788.1; gb/FJ755268.1) (BLAST, 2011).
Discussion
The results of this study indicate that C. gloeosporioides is the causal agent of anthracnose disease in pre-harvest litchi fruits of Brewster and Mauritius cultivars in Oaxaca, Mexico. The fungus was isolated from natural and artificially infected fruits of both cultivars, and formed a cottony white to light gray mycelial growth with salmon colored conidial masses on PDA. Symptoms on inoculated fruits were very similar to those observed in field with natural infection.
In this research, Colletotrichum was also isolated from asymptomatic Brewster fruits; similar results were reported by Ann et al., (2004), who isolated C. gloeosporioides from asymptomatic flowers and immature fruits of the Black leaf litchi cultivar. Once fruits were harvested and stored, they developed anthracnose symptoms, suggesting that this pathogen attacks litchi through latent infections. We consider the probable endophytic nature of C. gloeosporioides in the field.
As mentioned before, litchi anthracnose has been consigned mainly as a postharvest disease (Coates et al., 1994, Liu et al., 2003, and Liu et al., 2006) that results from quiescent infections (Li et al., 2005); however, this fungus has been reported as the causal agent of the peduncle rot and pepper spotting on litchi fruits under field conditions in Australia (Cooke et al., 2009). Others causes of pericarp browning at postharvest are moisture loss due to desiccation of the pericarp (Chen and Hong, 1992; Underhill and Critchley, 1993), degradation of anthocyanins and oxidation of phenolic substrates by polyphenol oxydase (Underhill and Critchley, 1993) and/or peroxidase enzymes (Zhang and Quantick, 1997).
Species of Colletotrichum cannot be recognized by host range (Sutton, 1980, 1992), so identification and characterization of the isolates obtained in this study were done based on morphological characteristics (Smith and Black, 1990; Gunnell and Gubler, 1992; Sutton, 1992). According to those criteria four out of 256 isolates of Colletotrichum spp. were selected (M26, M28-M30) and identified as C. gloeosporioides Penz; their micelial growth pattern agree with that described by Alvarez (1949); however, according to Smith and Black (1990) and Gunnel and Gluber (1992), this growth is similar to C. fragariae grown on PDA, but C. fragariae cultures on cornmeal, oatmeal, or bean-lime agar plates are dark with concentric circles and pink colored conidial masses (Brooks, 1931). In adition, the average size of the M26, and M28-M30 conidia were shorter and wider than those reported in C. fragariae (Smith and Black, 1990; Gunnel and Gubler, 1992).
Based on PCR amplifications through specific species primers, M26 and M28-M30 species were corroborated as C. gloeosporioides with a 95-100% similarity with sequences reported for the same species in the gene bank (Freeman et al., 2000).
Conclusions
Anthracnose symptoms observed in litchi fruits in Oaxaca were caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Penz. The disease was characterized by dark-brown and circular dry lesions on the exocarp and endocarp, but neither in the aril nor seed. This is the first report of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides as the causal agent of anthracnose of litchi fruits (Litchi chinensis) in Oaxaca, México.
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Received: November 20, 2014; Accepted: June 28, 2015