First Report of Verticillium Wilt Caused by Infection on Chinese Cabbage in Korea.

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National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, Horticultural and Herbal Crop Environment Division, Wanju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, Korea (the Republic of);

Published: September 2020

Chinese cabbage () is one of the most important vegetables in Korea due to its role as the main ingredient for the making of Kimchi. In June 2014, disease symptoms of leaves wilt, dry, and drop off on Chinese cabbage were observed in a Chinese cabbage farm located at Taebeak (37°26'50.7"N 128°95'50.0"E), Gangwon province, Korea. This disease was observed on approximately 35% of the plants in the field, causing an almost 10% decrease in total production. At the early stage of infection, the color at the edge of the plant foliage changed from green to yellow. As the disease progressed, infected leaves wilted, dried off, and detached from the plant. Soft rot that occurred at the base of the leaf stem and root tissues caused the infected leaves to dry and fell off the plant. To identify the causal agent, a small piece of infected leaf tissues was sterilized with 1% sodium hypochlorite solution for 1 min and rinsed with sterile water before it was transferred onto potato dextrose agar (PDA) media. The plates were then incubated at 25°C for 10 days in the dark. Fungal colonies grown on PDA media were of white-creamy in color with an abundance of mycelia and later develop into black color due to the formation of microsclerotia embedded in the media. Microscopic examination showed conidiophores and phialides were both appeared in a verticillate arrangement, whereas conidia were hyaline, smooth-walled, and ellipsoidal to oval with average size 5.4×2.5 µm (n=100). Microsclerotia appeared in elongate to an irregularly spherical shape and greatly variable in size. The morphological attributes of the fungal isolate described above were comparable to the characteristics of Kleb. () described by Hawksworth and Talboys (1970), and isolated from Chinese cabbage in Japan reported in Kishi (1998). Pathogenicity test was performed by soaking twelve individual Chinese cabbage seedlings for 15 min into fungal pathogen conidial suspension (1x10 conidium/ml) before transferred into soil tray. The same number of non-inoculated seedlings on the soil tray was used as a control. Inoculated and control plants were then covered with a plastic bag for 24 hours to maintain high humidity before transferred into the greenhouse (25°C). Seven days post-inoculation (dpi), treated plant leaves turned yellow, and soft rot was observed. At 10-dpi, plant leaf tissues dried off and severe soft rot occurred. Pathogenicity test was repeated three times and consistent results were obtained. The re-isolated fungal pathogen from the inoculated plants showed identical morphological characteristics to the original isolates, thus fulfilling Koch's postulates. For further identification, PCR amplification targeting and regions were performed (Liu et al., 1999; White et al., 1990). Each PCR product was sequenced and deposited in the GenBank under the accession LC549667 and LC061275, respectively. Sequence analysis using BLAST showed that the nucleotide sequences of ITS and RPB2 DNA fragments are 99-100% identical to the reference strain of available in the NCBI database (MG585719, HE972023, XM_009652520 and DQ522468, respectively). Therefore, based on the results of morphological and molecular analyses, the fungal pathogen isolated from Chinese cabbage in this study was identified as and deposited in the National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science germplasm collection (NIHHS 13-252). Recently, due to high demand and a more competitive price, more Chrysanthemum farmers in Korea switch their crops to Chinese cabbage. Interestingly, the occurrence of infection was also reported to occur in Chrysanthemum plants in Korea (Han et al. 2007), which indicates a serious problem ahead to these farmers. Therefore, in this current study, the identification of pathogenic to Chinese cabbage will provide vital knowledge for the development of disease management strategies to minimize the loss of crop production. To our knowledge, this is the first report that causes Verticillium wilt disease on Chinese cabbage in Korea.

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