Claim · model-written summary
Spraying healthy T. repens leaves with a spore suspension of C. trifolii isolate JZB3720003 produced leaf spot symptoms within 7 days, whereas sterilized-water controls remained healthy.
- Taxon
- Trifolium repens
Trifolium repense0 - Treatment
- spore suspension of isolate JZB3720003e2
- Interactor
- Curvularia trifoliiCurvularia trifoliit0pathogen
- Outcome
- spot symptomse4
- Comparator
- Plants sprayed with sterilized watere3
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Trifolium repens L. is widely grown in China as a lawn plant, forage and green manure crop”
e2“a spore suspension of isolate JZB3720003 (approximately 105 conidia/ml) was inoculated onto healthy leaves of one month old plants in a greenhouse at 18 - 28℃”
e3“Plants sprayed with sterilized water were used as blank controls”
e4“After 7 days, the leaves of the inoculated plants developed spot symptoms similar to those observed in the field, while the control plants remained healthy”
t0“First Report of Leaf Spot Disease Caused by Curvularia trifolii on Trifolium repens in China”
Title
First Report of Leaf Spot Disease Caused by Curvularia trifolii on Trifolium repens in China
Ning Qian; Qingyuan Bai; Kuo Huang; et al. Plant Disease 2026. doi:10.1094/pdis-11-25-2209-pdn
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Leaf spot disease on T. repens in a Beijing park had a 35% incidence.
- Observation The reisolated pathogen was confirmed as C. trifolii, fulfilling Koch postulates.
- Observation The isolates were identified as C. trifolii by morphology and phylogeny.
- Observation This is the first report of leaf spot disease caused by C. trifolii on T. repens in China.