Claim · model-written summary
Leaf spot disease on T. repens in a Beijing park had a 35% incidence.
- Taxon
- T. repens
Trifolium repense1 - Interactor
- Curvularia trifoliiCurvularia trifoliit0pathogen
- Outcome
- leaf spot diseasee1
- Value
- 35%e1
- Setting
- Qinghezhizhou Park, Haidian District, Beijing, Chinae1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorDirectionQualifier
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Verbatim
e1“Investigations conducted in September 2022 revealed a leaf spot disease on T. repens with an 35% incidence (100 plants were investigated) in Qinghezhizhou Park, Haidian District, Beijing, China”
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)
- Intervention effect 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.
- 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.