Life History, Development, and Host-Parasite Relations of Elsinoë Panici Tiffany and Mathre Audrey Coxbill Wacha Gabel Iowa State University
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UniversiW Micrdfilms International 300 N. Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, Ml 48106 8524653 Gabel, Audrey Coxbill Wacha LIFE HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, AND HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS OF ELSINOE PANIC! TIFFANY AND MATHRE Iowa State University PH.D. 1985 University Microfilms In t© r n ât i0 n9. 1 300 N. zeeb Road, Ann Arbor. Ml 48106 PLEASE NOTE: In all cases this material has been filmed in the best possible way from the available copy. Problems encountered with this document have been identified here with a check mark V . 1. Glossy photographs or pages 2. Colored illustrations, paper or print 3. Photographs with dark background 4. Illustrations are poor copy 5. Pages with black marks, not original copy 6. Print shows through as there is text on both sides of page 7. Indistinct, broken or small print on several pages 8. Print exceeds margin requirements 9. Tightly bound copy with print lost in spine 10. Computer printout pages with indistinct print 11. 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For Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 1985 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 1 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 3 Taxonomic Considerations 3 Life History and Inoculation Studies 4 Culture Studies 8 Developmental Studies 9 Host-Parasite Relations 13 Grass Morphology and Anatomy 17 MATERIALS AND METHODS 18 Field Observations 18 Inoculation of Panicum virgatum 19 Greenhouse 19 Detached leaves 21 Culture Studies 23 Spore Germination 24 Conidia 24 Ascospores 25 Light Microscopy Studies 26 RESULTS 29 Field Observations 29 Collection sites, and years collected 29 Infection and disease progressing during the growing season 36 Appearance and development of ascostromata 40 Overwintering 56 Effect of burning 57 iii Page Inoculation Studies 59 Greenhouse 59 Spore germination observations from cleared inoculated detached leaves 66 Culture Studies 72 Spores 80 Conidia 80 Morphology 80 Production 83 Germination 83 Chlamydospore formation 87 Ascospores 90 Asexual and Sexual Development in the Leaf 93 Asexual 93 Sexual 96 Disease progression related to season 101 Host-Parasite Relations 102 Field studies 102 Greenhouse studies 106 CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION 113 Distribution and Persistence 113 Disease Cycle Summary 114 Conidial development 114 Conidia germinate and infect 115 Incubation period 115 Secondary conidia 115 Spread of secondary conidia 115 Increase and progression of disease 115 Symptoms of stromata 115 Ascostromata 116 Ascospore germination 116 Continuous development of asci 116 iv Page Termination of disease development, overwintering. and dispersal 116 Disease Cycle 116 Conidial development 116 Conidia germinate and infect 117 Incubation period 120 Secondary conidia 121 Spread of secondary conidia 121 Increase and progression of disease 122 Stromata 122 Ascostromata 124 Ascospore germination 131 Continuous development of asci 132 Termination of disease development, overwintering, and dispersal 133 Host-Parasite Relations 134 Disease Assessment 141 Susceptibility 142 SUMMARY 144 LITERATURE CITED 147 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 151 APPENDIX A 152 APPENDIX B 154 1 INTRODUCTION In the late 1950s, a leaf-spotting pathogen on Panicum virgatum L. was collected and determined to be a new species of Elsinoë Raciborski. The species was described as Elsinoë panici from Iowa col lections by L. H. Tiffany and J. H. Mathre (1961). This host-pathogen relationship is particularly interesting because the only other reports of species of Elsinoë, or of the closely related genus Myriangium Mont. and Berk., on a member of the Gramineae are of Myriangium bambusae Rick on Phyllostachys puberula Munro near Nanking, China (Tai, 1931), and Elsinoë sacchari (Lo, 1964) on Saccharum offici- narum L. from Taiwan, China. sacchari Lo has also been observed in commercial sugar cane fields in Florida (Todd, 1960). All other hosts listed for Elsinoë spp. are herbaceous or woody dicots. The majority of species described are tropical or subtropical, but some species cause serious diseases on many hosts in temperate zones. Little developmental work has been done on any genus in the loculoascomycetous order, the Myriangiales. Tewari (1969), Tai (1931), Tendulkar (1971) and Miller (1938) examined sexual development in Elsinoë and Myriangium spp. but events leading to ascus formation are still poorly documented. Since E. panici Tiffany and Mathre was first described, it has been observed frequently on switchgrass from numerous prairies in Iowa as well as along roadsides. However, it has never been observed on other grasses, including other species of Panicum growing in the same sites. 2 indicating a high degree of host specificity. Elsinoë panici has not been studied since its description. This study was undertaken to learn more of its life history, development, distribution and host-parasite relationship. This information could be significant in light of recent interest in warm season grasses such as switchgrass for summer and fall forage. A study such as this is essential to provide background information for assessing disease losses and selecting plant material in breeding programs. 3 REVIEW OF LITERATURE Taxonomic Considerations Although Miller (1949) and others recognized differences in asci and development of ascocarp centra among groups of Ascomycetes, Luttrell (19553 more clearly made the association of a bitunicate ascus with an ascostromatic type of ascocarp, characterizing the Loculomycetes and separating them from other Ascomycetes which had unitunicate asci and perithecial walls in the ascocarp. Later (1973), he recognized five orders of this bitunicate group: Dothidiales, Hemisphaeriales, Pleosporales, Hysteriales, and Myriangiales. The order Myriangiales, where Elsinoë is located, was characterized as having globose bitunicate asci in uniascal locules within a multiloculate stroma. Four families were recognized, including the Myriangiaceae with the genus Elsinoë. This family was characterized by pseudoparenchymatous