Ju Ho Han 1,2†, Chang Hyun Ahn 1,3†, Seung-Yeol Lee 1, Chang-Gi Back 1,4, In-Kyu Kang 1 and Hee-Young Jung 1*
1College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea
2Lotte Skyhill Buyeo Country Club, Buyeo 33115, Korea
3Technogreen Co. Ltd., Yongin 17163, Korea
4National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Wanju 55365, Korea
Correspondence to heeyoung@knu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) September, 2016, 44(3):196-200.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2016.44.3.196
Received: August 30, 2016; Revised: September 7, 2016; Accepted: September 21, 2016
Published: September, 2016.
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Symptoms of summer patch were observed on Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) cv. “Midnight II” from mid-June in 2015 in Seoul, Korea. The symptoms appeared as leaf blight, root rot, and frog-eye patch, which are typical of summer patch. To identify the causal agent of these symptoms, a pathogen was isolated from diseased leaves and roots, and the cultural, morphological, and phylogenetic characteristics were analyzed. The isolate reached 50–60 mm on potato dextrose agar (PDA) after 10 days as a white-grey mycelium with septa, and became olive-green or brown from the center. Phialide-like structures were observed at the ends of hyphae, and conidia were rarely observed. A phylogenetic analysis was conducted based on large subunit (LSU) and RNA polymerase II large subunit (RPB1) sequences. According to this analysis, the isolated pathogen was confirmed to be Magnaporthiopsis poae. In a pathogenicity test, summer patch symptoms were observed at 20 days after inoculation using the same grass cultivar. This is the first report of summer patch disease caused by M. poae on cool season grass in Korea.
Cool season grass, Kentucky bluegrass, Magnaporthiopsis poae, Summer patch