Claim · model-written summary
The authors report tomato powdery mildew in China for the first time.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Interactor
- Oidium neolycopersiciErysiphe neolycopersicit0pathogene0
- Outcome
- first report of tomato powdery mildewe0
- Setting
- Chinae0
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Verbatim
e0“this is the first report of tomato powdery mildew in China”
t0“Oidium neolycopersici”
Title
First Report of Powdery Mildew Caused by Oidium neolycopersici on Tomato in China
C. W. Li; D. L. Pei; W. J. Wang; et al. Plant Disease 2008. doi:10.1094/pdis-92-9-1370c
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Observation Powdery mildew appeared on tomato leaves, petioles and stems in Shangqiu greenhouses.
- Observation The fungus had unbranched conidiophores averaging 58.4 μm long.
- Observation The fungus had conidiophores averaging 5.1 μm wide.
- Observation The pathogen conidia were hyaline, elliptical and borne singly.
- Observation Conidia averaged 30.6 μm in length.
- Observation Conidia averaged 15.1 μm in width.
- Observation Conidial germ tubes were straight and formed near conidial ends.
- Observation No chasmothecium was found in collected samples.
- Intervention effect Inoculated tomato plants developed powdery mildew symptoms by four days.
- Observation All L. esculentum cultivars showed susceptibility.
- Observation L. peruvianum LA2172 displayed complete resistance.
- Observation L. hirsutum G1.1560 displayed complete resistance.
- Observation Pathogen morphology on susceptible genotypes matched that from naturally infected plants.
- Observation The pathogen was identified as Oidium neolycopersici by asexual morphology and ITS sequence analysis.
- Observation The ITS sequence had 100% homology with ten GenBank O. neolycopersici sequences.