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Genetic diversity and effect of temperature and pH on the growth of Macrophomina phaseolina isolates from sunflower fields in Hungary

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The effects of temperature and pH on the growth of 45 Hungarian Macrophomina phaseolina isolates from different locations and hosts were compared on the basis of their genetic diversity. One Spanish and two Serbian isolates were also included in the experiment. The most favourable temperature regimes for the development of the isolates ranged between 25 and 35°C. The optimal pH for the pathogen varied between 4.0 and 6.0, but growth was observed on potato dextrose agar even at pH values of 3.0, 7.0 and 8.0. RAPD analysis with 13 different primer pairs generated 148 unambiguous bands. RFLP analysis involving 8 different restriction endonucleases was performed on a 1550 bp fragment of the rDNA region containing internal transcribed spacers (ITS1, ITS2), the 5.8S rDNA and part of the 25S rDNA. The greatest genetic distance values were obtained for three isolates, two from Hungary and one from Spain, which had similar values, but were quite distinct from all the others. A strong positive correlation was observed between the genetic distances and the growth parameters measured at various temperatures, and between the geographical data and the growth data sets at different pH values, but the correlation was less strong in the latter case. While Hungarian M. phaseolina populations are thought to reproduce clonally, the present results indicate the coexistence of different haplotypes in this area, and besides the geographical dominance of a given haplotype it was found that a closer genetic relationship might exist between spatially distinct haplotypes.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to all those who assisted in collecting the samples and to Dr. Leire Molinero-Ruiz, Dr. Vera Stojsi and Dr. Ferenc Bagi for the Spanish and Serbian isolates. Péter Poczai gratefully acknowledges support from the Hungarian State Eötvös Research Grant (MÖB/90-1/2011). The second author gratefully acknowledges support from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences through the “Bolyai János” research fellowship. Thanks are due to Barbara Harasztos for revising the manuscript linguistically.

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    Izabella Csöndes

  2. Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 19, 2462, Martonvásár, Hungary

    András Cseh

  3. Department of Plant Science and Biotechnology, Georgikon Faculty, University of Pannonia, PO Box 6671, 8360, Keszthely, Hungary

    János Taller

  4. Plant Biology (Biocenter 3), University of Helsinki, PO Box 65, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Péter Poczai

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Csöndes, I., Cseh, A., Taller, J. et al. Genetic diversity and effect of temperature and pH on the growth of Macrophomina phaseolina isolates from sunflower fields in Hungary. Mol Biol Rep 39, 3259–3269 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-011-1094-6

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