Seung-Yeol Lee1, Su-Jin Park1, Jae-Jin Lee1, Chang-Gi Back1,2, Leonid N. Ten1, In-Kyu Kang1, Hee-Young Jung1*
1College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea
2National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Wanju 55365, Korea
Correspondence to heeyoung@knu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) March, 2017, 45(1):54-62.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.20170006
Received: 31 January, 2017; Revised: 22 February, 2017; Accepted: 22 February, 2017
Published: March, 2017.
Ⓒ The Korean Society of Mycology
In 2014, abnormal brown spots were observed on Hongro apples in fields in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province and during low-temperature storage. The spots were round, blight brown, and different from the symptoms of previously reported apple diseases. A fungal pathogen was isolated and cultured on potato dextrose agar, and it was morphologically similar to Fusarium decemcellulare. A pathogenicity test showed the same brown spots on both wounded and unwounded Hongro and Fuji apple cultivars. RPB1 and RPB2 sequences of F. decemcellulare KNU-GC01 matched with those of F. decemcellulare NRRL 13412 (98.3% and 97.6% similarities, respectively); both strains clustered together in the phylogenetic tree, indicating their close relationship at the species level. Therefore, F. decemcellulare is a newly reported pathogen that causes brown spots on apples in Korea.
Apple fruit, Brown spot, Cultivar Fuji, Cultivar Hongro, Fusarium decemcellulare