Identification of Sclerotinia species

A variety of morphological and molecular characters were compared for their ability to separate the three plant pathogenic species that comprise the genus Sclerotinia : Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Sclerotinia minor and Sclerotinia trifoliorum . Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) probes ge...

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Veröffentlicht in:Australasian plant pathology 2005-01, Vol.34 (4), p.549-555
Hauptverfasser: Ekins, M G, Aitken, EAB, Goulter, K C
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Zusammenfassung:A variety of morphological and molecular characters were compared for their ability to separate the three plant pathogenic species that comprise the genus Sclerotinia : Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Sclerotinia minor and Sclerotinia trifoliorum . Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) probes generated from cloned genomic DNA fragments of S. sclerotiorum were used for accurate species designation and to compare against other markers, before further use in population genetics and breeding studies. Other characters used for comparison included host species, sclerotial diameters, ascospore morphism and breeding type. Several RFLP probes, either singly or in combination, enabled clear separation of the Sclerotinia species. Sclerotial diameters remain a good criterion for separating S. minor from S. sclerotiorum and S. trifoliorum , but the host species criterion was inadequate for accurately differentiating the 3 species of Sclerotinia .
ISSN:0815-3191
1448-6032
DOI:10.1071/AP05068