Abstract
In April 2012, postharvest carrot roots were found with circular black lesions and more often rotting tissue covered with white to black mould in farmer markets around Kunming city, Yunnan Province, China. Based on pathogenicity, morphology, and sequence of the rDNA internal transcribed spacer, Ceratocystis fimbriata caused the black lesions and Chalaropsis thielavioides (≡ Thielaviopsis thielavioides) caused the moldy rot. This is the first report of C. fimbriata and C. thielavioides as pathogens of a postharvest rot and mould of carrot (Daucus carota) in China. Better understanding of their incidence and ecology is needed to control these postharvest diseases.
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This work was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 31860522) and Open Project of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (no. NYST-2017-3).
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The nucleotide sequence data reported are available in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under the accession numbers: KF356184, KF356185, KF356186, KF356187.
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Xu, K., Li, J., Yang, X. et al. Postharvest rot on carrot caused by Ceratocystis fimbriata and Chalaropsis thielavioides (≡ Thielaviopsis thielavioides) in China. J Gen Plant Pathol 86, 322–325 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-020-00919-1
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