Occurrence, characterization and management of fruit rot of immature cucumbers under greenhouse conditions in Oman

Phytopathologia Mediterranea

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 421-429

  Al Sadi, Abdullah Mohammed ^a   Al Said, Fahad AlJulanda ^a   Al Kaabi, Saif Mohammed ^b   Al Quraini, Suad Mohammed ^a   AL Mazroui, Safa Said ^a   Al Mahmooli, Issa Hashil ^a   Deadman, Mike Leonard ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Oman)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Gray mold; ITS rDNA

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS ALTERNATA; BIPOLARIS; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM TENUISSIMUM; CORYNESPORA CASSIICOLA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CURVULARIA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM EQUISETI; FUSARIUM SOLANI;

EID: 84857890425     PISSN: 00319465     EISSN: 15932095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Al-Sa'di A.M., A. Drenth, M.L. Deadman, A.W.A.M. de Cock and E.A.B. Aitken, 2007. Molecular characterization and pathogenicity of Pythium species associated with damping-off in greenhouse cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) in Oman. Plant Pathology 56, 140-149.
2. Al-Sa'di A.M., A. Drenth, M.L. Deadman, F.A. Al-Said, I. Khan and E.A.B. Aitken, 2008. Association of a second phase of mortality in cucumber seedlings with a rapid rate of metalaxyl biodegradation in greenhouse soils. Crop Protection 27, 1110-1117.
3. Al-Sadi, A.M. and M.L. Deadman, 2010. Influence of seedborne Cochliobolus sativus (anamorph: Bipolaris sorokiniana) on crown rot and root rot of barley and wheat. Journal of Phytopathology 158, 683-690.
4. Al-Sadi A.M., F.A. Al-Said, A.H. Al-Jabri, I.H. Al-Mahmooli, A.H. Al-Hinai and A.W.A.M. de Cock, 2011a. Occurrence and characterization of fungi and oomycetes transmitted via potting mixtures and organic manures. Crop Protection 30, 38-44.
5. Al-Sadi A.M., F.A. Al-Said, K.S. Al-Kiyumi, R.S. Al-Mahrouqi, I.H. Al-Mahmooli and M.L. Deadman, 2011b. Etiology and characterization of cucumber vine decline in Oman. Crop Protection 30, 192-197.
6. Ando K. and R. Grumet, 2006. Evaluation of altered cucumber plant architecture as a means to reduce Phytophthora capsici disease incidence on cucumber fruit. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Sciences 131, 491-498.
7. Bao J.R., H.S. Chen and H.F. Gu, 1992. Preliminary study on the cucumber wilt disease. Plant Protection 18, 24-25.
8. Barnett H.L. and B.B. Hunter (ed.), 1998. Illustrated Genera of Imperfect Fungi, 4th Edition. APS Press, MN, USA.
9. Blancard D., H. Lecoq and M. Pitrat, 2005. A Colour Atlas of Cucurbit Diseases: Observation, Identification and Control. Manson Publishing, France.
10. Chen C., J. Wang, Q. Luo, S. Yuan and M. Zhou, 2007. Characterization and fitness of carbendazim-resistant strains of Fusarium graminearum (wheat scab). Pest Management Science 63, 1201-1207.
11. Chung W.H., W.C. Chung, P.F. Ting, C.C. Ru, H.C. Huang and J.W. Huang, 2009. Nature of resistance to methyl benzimidazole carbamate fungicides in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lilii and F. oxysporum f. sp. gladioli in Taiwan. Journal of Phytopathology 157, 742-747.
12. Elad Y., H. Yunis and T. Katan, 1992. Multiple fungicide resistance to benzimidazoles, dicarboximides and diethofencarb in field isolates of Botrytis cinerea in Israel. Plant Pathology 41, 41-46.
13. Elad Y., H. Yunis and H. Volpin, 1993a. Effect of nutrition on susceptibility of cucumber, eggplant and pepper crops to Botrytis cinerea. Canadian Journal of Botany 71, 602-608.
14. Elad Y., G. Zimand, Y. Zaqs, S. Zuriel and I. Chet, 1993b. Use of Trichoderma harzianum in combination or alternation with fungicides to control cucumber grey mold (Botrytis cinerea) under commercial greenhouse conditions. Plant Pathology 42, 324-332.
15. Gevens A.J., K. Ando, K.H. Lamour, R. Grumet and M.K. Hausbeck, 2006. A detached cucumber fruit method to screen for resistance to Phytophthora capsici and effect of fruit age on susceptibility to infection. Plant Disease 90, 1276-1282.
16. Jarvis W.R., S.D. Barrie and J.A. Traquair, 1990. Morphological and chemical studies of Penicillium oxalicum, newly identified as a pathogen on greenhouse cucumbers. Canadian Journal of Botany 68, 21-25.
17. Kim B.S., E.W. Park and K.Y. Cho, 2001. Population dynamics and fitness comparison of sensitive and resistant phenotypes of Botrytis cinerea to benzimidazole, dicarboximide and N-phenylcarbamate fungicides. Plant Pathology Journal 17, 149-153.
18. Larkin M.A., G. Blackshields, N.P. Brown, R. Chenna, P.A. McGettigan, H. McWilliam, F. Valentin, I.M. Wallace, A. Wilm, R. Lopez, Thompson, J.D., T.J. Gibson and D.G. Higgins, 2007. Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0. Bioinformatics 23, 2947-2948.
19. Lee S.B. and J.W. Taylor, 1990. Isolation of DNA from fungal mycelia and single spores. In: PCR protocols: A Guide to Methods and Applications (Innis M.A., D.H. Gelfand, J.J. Sninsky, T.J.s White, ed.). Academic Press, New York, NY, USA, 282-287.
20. Leslie J.F. and B.A. Summerell, 2006. The Fusarium Laboratory Manual. 1st Edition. Blackwell Publishing, Ames, Iowa, USA.
21. Luo Q.Q., J.Q. Xu, Y.P. Hou, C.J. Chen, J.X. Wang and M.G. Zhou, 2009. PURA-PCR for detection of Fusarium graminearum genotypes with moderate resistance to carbendazim. Plant Pathology 58, 882-887.
22. Moghal S.M., P. Shivanathan, A. Mani, A.D. Al-Zidjali, T.S. Al-Zidjali and Y.M. Al-Raeesy, 1993. Status of Pests and Diseases in Oman: Series 1: Plant Diseases in the Batinah. Muscat, Oman, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
23. Moyano C., V. Gómez and P. Melgarejo, 2004. Resistance to pyrimethanil and other fungicides in Botrytis cinerea populations collected on vegetable crops in Spain. Journal of Phytopathology 152, 484-490.
24. Nallathambi P., C. Umamaheswari, B.B.L. Thakore and T.A. More, 2009. Post-harvest management of ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk) fruit rot (Alternaria alternata Fr. Keissler) using Trichoderma species, fungicides and their combinations. Crop Protection 28, 525-532.
25. Sharma D. and M.D. Awasthi, 1997. Adsorption and movement of metalaxyl in soils under unsaturated flow. Plant and Soil 195, 293-298.
26. Stanghellini M.E. and J.M. Phillips, 1975. Pythium aphanidermatum: its occurrence and control with pyroxychlor in the Arabian desert at Abu Dhabi. Plant Disease Reporter 59, 559-563.
27. van Steekelenburg N.A.M., 1983. Epidemiological aspects of Didymella bryoniae, the cause of stem and fruit rot of cucumber. Netherland Journal of Plant Pathology 89, 75-86.
28. van Steekelenburg N.A.M., 1986. Factors influencing internal fruit rot of cucumber caused by Didymella bryoniae. Netherland Journal of Plant Pathology 92, 81-91.
29. Sun H.Y., H.C. Wang, Y. Chen, H.X. Li, C.J. Chen and M.G. Zhou, 2010. Multiple resistance of Botrytis cinerea from vegetable crops to carbendazim, diethofencarb, procymidone and pyrimethanil in China. Plant Disease 94, 551-556.
30. Thomidis T., T. Michailides, E. Exadaktylou, 2009. Contribution of pathogens to peach fruit rot in northern Greece and their sensitivity to iprodione, carbendazim, thiophanate-methyl and tebuconazole fungicides. Journal of Phytopathology 157, 194-200.
31. Thompson J.D., D.G. Higgins and T.J. Gibson, 1994. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Research 22, 4673-4680.
32. White T.J., T. Bruns, S. Lee and J. Taylor, 1990. Amplification and direct sequencing of fungal ribosomal RNA genes for phylogenetics. In: PCR protocols: A Guide to Methods and Applications (Innis M.A., D.H. Gelfand, J.J. Sninsky, T.J.s White, ed.), Academic Press, New York, NY, USA, 315-322.
33. Yunis H., Y. Elad and Y. Mahrer, 1990. Effects of air temperature, relative humidity and canopy wetness on gray mold of cucumbers in unheated greenhouses. Phytoparasitica 18, 203-215.
34. Yunis H., Y. Elad and Y. Mahrer, 1991. Influence of fungicidal control of cucumber and tomato grey mould (Botrytis cinerea) on fruit yield. Pesticide Science 31, 325-335.