Abstract
A panicle blight with sclerotia was found on mango (Mangifera indica L.) in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, in March 2016. Water-soaked lesions with white mycelia developed on panicles in the flowering stage; softening and decay of panicles was followed by formation of sclerotia. The fungus isolated from these sclerotia was identified as Sclerotinia sclerotiorum based on morphology and analysis of rDNA-ITS sequences. The isolate reproduced the symptoms on mango panicles in an inoculation test and was reisolated from flower stalks. This is the first report of sclerotinia rot (kinkaku-byo in Japanese) on mango caused by S. sclerotiorum in Japan.
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The authors thank Dr. T. Sato, Genetic Resources Center, NARO, for critical reading of the manuscript.
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Ajitomi, A., Takushi, T., Ooshiro, A. et al. First report of sclerotinia rot of mango caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Japan. J Gen Plant Pathol 84, 70–72 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-017-0758-z
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