Vol. 57 No. 1 (2018): Focus issue on plant health sustaining Mediterranean ecosystems
New or Unusual Disease Reports

Vascular wilt of teak (Tectona grandis) caused by Fusarium oxysporum in Brazil

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  • Rafaela BORGES,
  • Mônica MACEDO,
  • Cléia CABRAL,
  • Maurício ROSSATO,
  • Maria FONTES,
  • Maria SANTOS,
  • Maria FERREIRA,
  • Maria FONSECA,
  • Ailton REIS,
  • Leonardo BOITEUX
Rafaela BORGES
Plant Pathology Department, University of Brasília, Brasília–DF, Brazil
Mônica MACEDO
Plant Pathology Department, University of Brasília, Brasília–DF, Brazil
Cléia CABRAL
Plant Pathology Department, University of Brasília, Brasília–DF, Brazil
Maurício ROSSATO
Plant Pathology Department, University of Brasília, Brasília–DF, Brazil
Maria FONTES
Plant Pathology Department, University of Brasília, Brasília–DF, Brazil
Maria SANTOS
Plant Pathology Department, University of Brasília, Brasília–DF, Brazil
Maria FERREIRA
Plant Pathology Department, University of Lavras–MG, Brazil
Maria FONSECA
National Center for Vegetable Crops Research (CNPH), Embrapa Hortaliças, Brasília–DF, Brazil
Ailton REIS
National Center for Vegetable Crops Research (CNPH), Embrapa Hortaliças, Brasília–DF, Brazil
Leonardo BOITEUX
Plant Pathology Department, University of Brasília, Brasília–DF, Brazil National Center for Vegetable Crops Research (CNPH), Embrapa Hortaliças, Brasília–DF, Brazil
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14601/Phytopathol_Mediterr-20896

Published 2018-05-13

Keywords

  • molecular diagnosis vascular disease

How to Cite

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R. BORGES, “Vascular wilt of teak (Tectona grandis) caused by Fusarium oxysporum in Brazil”, Phytopathol. Mediterr., vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 115–121, May 2018.

Copyright (c) 2018 Rafaela BORGES, Mônica MACEDO, Cléia CABRAL, Maurício ROSSATO, Maria FONTES, Maria SANTOS, Maria FERREIRA, Maria FONSECA, Ailton REIS, Leonardo BOITEUX

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Abstract

Commercial plantations of teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) are affected by many economically important fungal diseases under Brazilian conditions. Teak plants exhibiting distinctive vascular wilt symptoms were observed in Mirassol do Oeste (MT), Brazil. Trunk samples of the affected trees were collected, disinfected, and plated onto potato dextrose agar. Fungal cultures obtained displayed morphological characteristics typical of the Fusarium oxysporum species complex. A representative F. oxysporum isolate was used in pathogenicity assays. Teak plants displayed symptoms similar to those observed under field conditions approx. 60 d after root-dipping inoculation. Amplicons corresponding to segments of the translation elongation factor 1-α (TEF-1α) and RNA polymerase II second largest subunit (RPB2) genes were obtained using as template the genomic DNA extracted from two Fusarium isolates obtained from teak. Phylogenetic analyses of the amplicon sequences placed the isolates into the same cluster of isolates belonging to the F. oxysporum species complex. To our knowledge, this is the first report of vascular wilt of teak caused by F. oxysporum in the Neotropical region.

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