Markers to differentiate species of anthracnose fungi identify Colletotrichum fructicola as the predominant virulent species in strawberry plants in Chiba Prefecture of Japan

• DOI: 10.1007/s10327-016-0689-0
• Publication Date: 2016-12-09T03:52:24Z
• Authors: Pamela Gan; Nanako Nakata; Takeshi Suzuki; Ken Shirasu
• Keywords: Colletotrichum; Amplicon; Fungal pathogen

Colletotrichum fungi belonging to the gloeosporioides species complex include a number of economically important postharvest pathogens that often cause anthracnose. Until now, different within this group could only be distinguished from one another reliably using multigenic phylogenetic analyses. Using comparative genomics approach, we developed marker can differentiate fructicola, aenigma and siamense C. based on PCR amplicon size differences. When used classify 115 isolates collected over 20 years strawberries in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, were predominantly fructicola. To our knowledge, is first report characterizing infecting Japan contributes understanding diversity anthracnose Japan.