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Heritability of aggressiveness components in Cercospora coffeicola isolates

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Brown eye spot (BES) disease caused by the fungus Cercospora coffeicola is present in all coffee-producing regions of the world. Heritability has been estimated in studies of Cercospora leaf spot disease resistance in several crops, but there are few studies characterizing the genetic heritability of the phenotypic characteristics of the fungus. Therefore, this study aims to verify the existence of heritability of the aggressiveness components (disease severity, sporulation and cercosporin production) in C. coffeicola isolates. Additionally, we estimate the effect of the municipalities (geographic origin) to check their influence on the fungus aggressiveness components. Variation in heritability was observed for each of the three aggressiveness components evaluated. Cluster analysis showed the genetic variability of C. coffeicola isolates, however there was no grouping of C. coffeicola isolates according to their geographic origin. Based on the results obtained, a group of C. coffeicola isolates with high severity and heritability values were selected with the potential to be used in the development and screening of resistant coffee cultivars.

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This research was co-funded by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, Brazil), Consórcio Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento do Café, the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, Brazil), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG, Brazil), Instituto Nacional de Ciência de Tecnologia do Café (INCT-Café, Brazil) and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - UNIT LEAF (UID/AGR/04129/2020, Portugal). The authors are grateful to Cyntia S Santos for her assistance in drawing up the figure.

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, Federal University of Lavras, UFLA, Lavras, MG, 37200-000, Brazil

    Deila Magna dos Santos Botelho & Mário Lúcio Vilela de Resende

  2. Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária de Minas Gerais (EPAMIG), Lavras, MG, 37200-000, Brazil

    Vinicius Teixeira Andrade & Juliana Costa de Rezende Abrahão

  3. CIFC - Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro & LEAF - Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

    Leonor de Castro Guerra Guimarães

  4. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Café, Inovacafé, Lavras, MG, 37200-000, Brazil

    Alan Carvalho Andrade

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dos Santos Botelho, D.M., de Resende, M.L.V., Andrade, V.T. et al. Heritability of aggressiveness components in Cercospora coffeicola isolates. Eur J Plant Pathol 164, 495–505 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-022-02573-z

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