Vol. 65 No. 1 (2026)
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Occurrence of Cylindrocarpon-like anamorphs causing black root rot of strawberry plants in Türkiye

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  • Havva DINLER,
  • Ayhan YILDIZ,
  • Seher BENLIOGLU,
  • Umit OZYILMAZ,
  • Kemal BENLIOGLU
Havva DINLER
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Usak University, 64200 Usak, Türkiye
Ayhan YILDIZ
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Adnan Menderes University, 09100 Aydın, Türkiye
Seher BENLIOGLU
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Adnan Menderes University, 09100 Aydın, Türkiye
Umit OZYILMAZ
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Adnan Menderes University, 09100 Aydın, Türkiye
Kemal BENLIOGLU
Aydın Adnan Menderes University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/phyto-16843
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Published 2026-05-14

Keywords

  • Dactylonectria novozelandica,
  • D. torresensis,
  • D. macrodidyma,
  • Ilyonectria europaea

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H. DINLER, A. YILDIZ, S. BENLIOGLU, U. OZYILMAZ, and K. BENLIOGLU, “Occurrence of Cylindrocarpon-like anamorphs causing black root rot of strawberry plants in Türkiye”, Phytopathol. Mediterr., vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 107–119, May 2026.

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Abstract

This study aimed to identify the species of Cylindrocarpon-like anamorphs associated with black root rot of strawberry seedlings and field-grown plants in Aydin province, Türkiye. Samples of strawberry seedlings before planting and diseased plants after planting were collected from 41 strawberry fields during two production seasons (2009-2010 and 2010-2011) in Sultanhisar of Aydın. Incidence of pathogenic Cylindrocarpon spp. in seedlings was 0.11-0.54%, and fungal pathogens were isolated from 15.8% of diseased plants in 2009/2010 and were -4.6% in 2010/2011. Seven Cylindrocarpon-like pathogenic isolates recovered from seedling roots and 17 from diseased plants were further identified as Dactylonectria novozelandica (DN; 12 isolates), Dactylonectria torresensis (DT; nine), Dactylonectria macrodidyma (DM; one), and Ilyonectria europaea (IE; two isolates), using multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) with sequencing of tef1, tub2, and his3 partial genes. Cultural and morphological characteristics were determined for representative isolates of four species. Pathogenicity tests indicated that the most aggressive species could cause necrosis on detached strawberry stolons, and severity of plant decline in pots experiments was greatest from DT, less from DN and IE, and least from DM. This is the first report of D. novozelandica, D. torresensis, D. macrodidyma in Türkiye, and I. europaea in the world, as causes of black root rot in strawberry.

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