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Pathogenicity of Stemphylium lycopersici isolated from rotted tobacco seeds on seedlings and leaves

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A preemergence damping-off of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) was found in Fukuoka, Japan, in 2009. A fungus repeatedly isolated from the black-rotted seeds reproduced the symptoms in tobacco seeds, and the preemergence damping-off developed after flower and soil inoculation with the fungus. Brown spots and blight developed on leaves of tobacco seedlings after inoculation with the isolate. The fungus was reisolated from the rotted seeds and blighted leaves. The causal fungus was identified as Stemphylium lycopersici based on morphology and phylogenetic analysis. This is the first report to confirm the pathogenicity of S. lycopersici in tobacco in the world.

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  1. Long H. Hoang

    Present address: Department of Molecular Plant Pathology, Agricultural Genetics Institute, Pham Van Dong, Tu liem, Hanoi, Vietnam

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  1. Natural Resources Inventory Center, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, 3-1-3 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8604, Japan

    Daisuke Kurose & Seiya Tsushima

  2. Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan

    Long H. Hoang, Naruto Furuya, Minoru Takeshita & Kenichi Tsuchiya

  3. Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8602, Japan

    Toyozo Sato

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The fungal isolates examined were deposited in the NIAS Genebank, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan as MAFF 306895–306898. The nucleotide sequence data reported are available in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases as accessions AB704306–AB704308, AB704311–AB704314, AB704317–AB704319, AB704321–AB704325, and AB828243–AB828259.

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Kurose, D., Hoang, L.H., Furuya, N. et al. Pathogenicity of Stemphylium lycopersici isolated from rotted tobacco seeds on seedlings and leaves. J Gen Plant Pathol 80, 147–152 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-013-0501-3

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