CSIRO PUBLISHING www.publish.csiro.au/journals/apdn Australasian Plant Disease Notes, 2009, 4,87–88

Botrytis disease of kiwifruit in

A. KarakayaA,B and H. Bayraktar A

ADepartment of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, Dıskap¸ ı, Ankara 06110, Turkey. BCorresponding author. Email: [email protected]

Abstract. Botrytis cinerea infection of kiwifruit was reported for the first time from Rize, Turkey. The pathogen caused leaf blights. It is found in Rize central district, Ardesen,¸ Pazar, Cayeli,¸ Fındıklı and Güneysu districts. Isolates were confirmed to be B. cinerea using polymerase chain reaction with specific primers C729 that amplified a 700 bp fragment.

Additional keywords: Botrytis cinerea, kiwifruit, Actinidia deliciosa, Rize, Turkey.

Introduction characterisation studies were carried out in order to identify Botrytis cinerea and other Botrytis species are important Botrytis cinerea. pathogens of numerous plants including vegetables, orchard For molecular characterisation of the isolates, DNA was crops, ornamental plants and stored agricultural products extracted from all B. cinerea isolates according to the method of (Jarvis 1977; Elad et al. 2007). Botrytis cinerea is a common Lee and Taylor (1990). Isolates were cultivated on PDA medium fungus and damages flowers, leaves, stems, fruit and other for 7 days at 23 1 C. Mycelia were collected from the surface of parts of many plants (Ellis 1971) including kiwifruit (Actinidia PDA medium by scraping with a sterile spatula and disrupted in an deliciosa hybrids). This pathogen causes stem end rot of kiwifruit extraction buffer. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis was which is commonly observed in storage facilities (Brook 1991; performed according to the method of Rigotti et al.(2002)with 0 0 Manning and Lallu 1997; Michailides and Elmer 2000). primers C729 (C729+: 5 -AGCTCGAGAGAGATCTCTGA-3 ; – 0 0 Pennycook (1985) also reported B. cinerea affecting harvested C729 :5 -CTGCAATGTTCTGCGTGGAA-3 ). The PCR products fruit during cold storage. Botrytis sp. from kiwifruit fruit rot was were separated electrophoretically in 1.4% agarose gels using reported from Korea (Koh et al. 2003). Botrytis cinerea was also TRIS-acetate-ethylenediaminetetra-acetic acid (EDTA) (TAE) reported from Italy (Bisiach et al. 1984), USA, New Zealand buffer and visualised under UV light after staining with (Michailides and Elmer 2000) and Japan (Ieki 1993). Although ethidium bromide (Sambrook et al. 1989). Pathogenicity tests were performed in a controlled growth B. cinerea is most often reported as a storage disease, it has a preharvest component and affects green leaves, flower parts room with a 18/23 C night/day temperature regime. The relative and senescent or dead plant parts (Brook 1991; Michailides and humidity of the controlled growth room ranged between 65% Elmer 2000). and 85% during the experimental period. Pathogenicity studies Kiwifruit was first introduced to Turkey in 1988. The Eastern were performed with 2-year-old kiwifruit plants cv. Hayward. Region is particularly suitable for kiwifruit growing Mycelial plugs, 0.5 cm in diameter, taken from a 10 day-old and an increasing number of kiwifruit growing areas are being B. cinerea culture were placed on the fully expanded kiwifruit established there (Yalc¸ın et al. 1998). of Turkey leaves and removed 1 week later. In control treatments only is becoming an important kiwifruit growing region. This study sterile agar plugs were used. The leaves were misted three reports the first finding of Botrytis grey mould in kiwifruit times each day for 3 days. in Turkey. Results and discussion In both survey years Botrytis cinerea was isolated from leaves Materials and methods showing leaf blight symptoms. Botrytis cinerea species-specific Surveys were conducted in Rize Province of Turkey for the PCR using C729 primer set, amplified the expected 700-bp presence of Botrytis cinerea in kiwifruit orchards. Thirty-three DNA fragment from isolates tested. A total of 17 Botrytis kiwifruit orchards in Rize central, Cayeli,¸ Pazar, Fındıklı, Iyidere,_ cinerea isolates were obtained in 2007 from Rize central, Caml¸ ıhemsin,¸ Derepazarı, Ardesen¸ and Güneysu districts Ardesen,¸ Pazar, Cayeli,¸ Fındıklı and Güneysu districts. Fourteen were surveyed in autumn 2007 and 32 kiwifruit orchards in isolates were obtained in 2008 from Ardesen,¸ Fındıklı, Pazar and Rize central, Cayeli,¸ Fındıklı, Derepazarı, Ardesen¸ and Pazar Cayeli¸ districts. The disease was not common and only leaf districts were surveyed in autumn 2008. Diseased leaves were blight symptoms were observed. Leaf blights consisted of collected from kiwifruit growing areas, surface-sterilised with reddish brown, brown and grey leaf areas (Fig. 1). B. cinerea 1% NaOCl for 1 min and placed into Petri plates containing formed whitish grey colonies which later turned greenish grey/ potato dextrose agar (PDA). Morphological and molecular grayish brown with age and abundant sclerotia were developed.

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Acknowledgement This study was supported by Ankara University Research Fund (Project No: 08B4347002).

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