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Occurrence and characterisation of Rhizoctonia species causing diseases of ornamental plants in Italy

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During surveys conducted in 2010–2012 Rhizoctonia symptoms were observed on 30 ornamental species in different nurseries located in eastern Sicily (Southern Italy). Eighty-eight isolates of Rhizoctonia spp. were obtained from symptomatic leaves, roots and stems. Fifty-six of the isolates were binucleate and 32 were multinucleate Rhizoctonia. Characterisation of anastomosis groups (AGs) was performed using morphological characteristics and sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer of ribosomal DNA ( rDNA-ITS) region. Most isolates collected were Rhizoctonia solani AG-4 HG-I (35.2% of all isolates) and one isolate was AG-2-2 IIIB. The binucleate isolates belonged to AG-R (27.3%), AG-A (21.6%), AG-G (12.5%), AG-V (1.1%) and AG-Fb (1.1%). The pathogenicity of 38 representative isolates collected from each host was tested on seedlings or cuttings grown in a growth chamber. All R. solani AG-4 HG-I isolates, most of the binucleate AG-R, AG-A and AG-G and AG-V were pathogenic and reproduced symptoms identical to that observed in nurseries, while binucleate AG-Fb and R. solani AG-2-2 IIIB isolates were nonpathogenic. This is the first report of the occurrence of Rhizoctonia species on some ornamental plants and the first report of binucleate Rhizoctonia AG-R and AG-V in Europe.

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This work was supported by MIUR project number PON01_01611 (SO.PRO.ME: Sustainable production of potted plants in Mediterranean environment). The authors thank Prof. Masao Arakawa (Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Japan) for his contribution in the molecular characterisation.

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    Dalia Aiello, Pietro T. Formica & Giancarlo Polizzi

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Aiello, D., Guarnaccia, V., Formica, P.T. et al. Occurrence and characterisation of Rhizoctonia species causing diseases of ornamental plants in Italy. Eur J Plant Pathol 148, 967–982 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-017-1150-8

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