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Monilinia laxa, the incitant of blossom blight in stone fruits in Israel, is sensitive to 5μg/ml of the dicarboximide fungicides vinclozolin and iprodione in the growth medium. When a large number of spores, from an isolate never exposed to these fungicides, was seeded on a medium containing 15 μg/ml iprodione, spontaneous resistant mutants appeared at 10-5 frequency. These mutants showed cross resistance to the dicarboximide fungicides vinclozolin, procymidone, l-(3,5-dichloro-phenyl)-3-propen(2)-pyrrolidin-2,5-dion (Co 4462), l-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-3-methoxymethyl-pyrrolidin-2,5-dion (Co 6054), and to dicloran. Growth rate on fungicide-free medium was similar to that of the parental sensitive strain but sporulation was much reduced. Growth rate on media supplemented with dicarboximide fungicides decreased gradually with increasing fungicide concentrations. The resistance has been stable for more than one year in the absence of fungicides. Artificial inoculation of cherry, apricot and plum fruits previously treated with 500 μg/ml vinclozolin, iprodione, procymidone or Co 6054, with a resistant strain, resulted in brown rot; similar treatments provided full protection of the fruits against the sensitive strain.
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Katan, T., Shabi, E. Characterization of a dicarboximide-fungicide-resistant laboratory isolate ofMonilinia laxa . Phytoparasitica 10, 241–245 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023965
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