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Members of Botryosphaeria s.l. have an extensive history as cankering pathogens of stressed and declining oak trees in the eastern United States (Ferreira et al. 2021). The host range, distribution, and virulence among two closely related species, Diplodia corticola and D. gallae, remains unclear (Brazee et al. 2023). On 15 August 2023, a survey was conducted at a declining natural hardwood site in Shenandoah County, Virginia (GPS coordinates 38.922089, -78.606125). One mature Quercus coccinea tree that displayed scorched leaf margins and branch dieback was felled and a cankered branch from the crown was sampled (Fig. 1A and B). A 4-mm piece of necrotic tissue was selected from the margin of the canker, disinfected with 2.5% NaOCl, again with 70% ethanol, and air-dried before being placed on half-strength acidified PDA medium (pH 4.8) and incubated in the dark at 22 ± 2°C. After 5 days, four colonies were transferred to full-strength PDA medium and incubated in the dark at 22 ± 2°C. After 10 days, all four colonies displayed thick, gray, floccose mycelium and pigmented hyphae (Fig. 1C). Mycelia was harvested from 10-day-old colonies with a sterile pin and DNA was extracted using a Qiagen DNeasy Plant Pro Kit (Germantown, MD) according to the manufacturer's instructions. A fragment of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and translation elongation factor 1-α (tef1) loci were amplified using ITS4/ITS5 (White et al. 1990) and EF1-728F/EF1-986R (Carbone and Kohn 1999) primer sets, respectively. The PCR amplicons were purified with ExoSap-IT (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA) and sequenced at Eurofins (Louisville, KY).&xa0; The raw nucleotide sequences were analyzed using Geneious 11.1.5 software (Biomatters, Auckland, NZ). All four colonies had identical ITS sequences. A 523 and 276-bp fragment of the ITS and tef1 loci, respectively, from isolate R1.2 was deposited into the GenBank database (accessions OR934498 and OR961039). A dataset of 43 strains consisting of 38,658 characters was aligned using MAFFT v7.49 (Katoh et al. 2013), and a concatenated ITS + tef1 maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree (1000 bootstraps) was built with PhyML 3.0 (Guindon et al. 2010) using the GTR substitution model. Isolate R1.2 was grouped with isolates of D. gallae although the species failed to form a well-supported clade (BS = 67) due to intraspecific variation (Fig. 1D). Koch's postulates were fulfilled by inoculating five healthy, containerized Q. coccinea trees (average stem caliper 5.3 cm) with isolate R1.2, with five plants as controls. After disinfecting the bark with 70% ethanol, a 0.5 mm section of the bark was removed 13 cm above the soil line with a sterile scalpel, and a 0.5 mm agar plug taken from the edge of a 10-day-old PDA culture was placed in the wound with the mycelium facing the cambial tissue, sealed with Parafilm, and maintained at 22 ± 4°C. The same procedure was performed on the control plants using sterile PDA plugs. After five weeks the bark was removed, and all five stems treated with R1.2 had necrotic lesions with a mean linear growth ([length+width]/2) of 9.2 ± 2.72 mm from the edge of the wound, which was significantly larger (P = 0.003) than the controls (1 ± 0.66 mm; Fig. 1E - L). Necrotic stem tissue was sampled as previously described, and the isolate recovered was confirmed as D. gallae based on morphology and 100% ITS sequence homology to isolate R1.2. D. gallae was not recovered from the control plants. In the United States, D. gallae has been isolated from Q. rubra and Q. velutina twig cankers in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont (Brazee et al. 2023). This is the first report of the species in Virginia causing branch cankers on Q. coccinea.
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