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Species of Botryosphaeriaceae involved in grapevine dieback in China

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Botryosphaeria dieback is a serious disease problem for table and grape wine production worldwide. The disease however, has been less well-studied in China. In this study, we surveyed Botryosphaeria dieback in 72 vineyards of 20 grape-growing regions in China and found that Botryosphaeria dieback occurs in 18 out of 20 provinces. Morphological and multi-gene phylogenetic analyses confirmed that Botryosphaeria dothidea, Diplodia seriata, Lasiodiplodia theobromae and Neofusicoccum parvum are associated with different grapevine dieback symptoms. This study also revealed considerable differences in the geographical distribution of Botryosphaeriaceae species in China with Lasiodiplodia theobromae and Neofusicoccum parvum occurring only in subtropical monsoon climate regions, Diplodia seriata occurring only in temperate monsoon climate regions, and Botryosphaeria dothidea occurring in both temperate and subtropical monsoon climate regions. Analysis of 26 isolates showed that there is little genetic variation within species. Koch’s postulates were satisfied for all species, and pathogenicity testing showed that among the 25 major cultivars growing in China, none was resistant to the four taxa. The current paper represents the first detailed report on Botryosphaeria dieback of grapevines in China.

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Acknowledgments

This work was funded by CARS-30 and Innovation Funds of IPEP. During the vineyard survey, Linzhong Gong, Fanfang Kong and Jiang Wu provided help with diseased sample collection. The authors also thank Haiying Xu, Guojun Zhang (Institute of Forestry and Fruit Sciences, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences), Yafeng Dong and Zunping Zhang (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) for providing the plant material for the pathogenicity assays. Thanks to R. Jayawardena for revising the manuscript.

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  1. Institute of Plant and Environment Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, People’s Republic of China

    Ji-Ye Yan, Wei Zhang, Sheng-Wei Yao, Asha J. Dissanayake & Xing-Hong Li

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People’s Republic of China

    Ji-Ye Yan, Yue Xie, Guo-Zhen Zhang & You-Liang Peng

  3. Department of Plant Pathology, Agriculture College, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, People’s Republic of China

    Yong Wang

  4. Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand

    Jian-Kui Liu & Kevin D. Hyde

  5. Department of Plant Pathology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, 14456, USA

    Robert C. Seem

  6. Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, People’s Republic of China

    Zhong-Yue Wang

  7. Guangxi Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute, Guilin, 541004, People’s Republic of China

    Xian-Jin Bai

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Yan, JY., Xie, Y., Zhang, W. et al. Species of Botryosphaeriaceae involved in grapevine dieback in China. Fungal Diversity 61, 221–236 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-013-0251-8

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