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First Report of Black Spot Disease Caused by Alternaria alternata on Sweet Persimmon Fruits

  • Lee, Jung Han (Daejung Golf Engineering Co. Ltd.) ;
  • Kim, Jinwoo (Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Kwak, Youn-Sig (Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University)
  • Received : 2013.07.28
  • Accepted : 2013.09.03
  • Published : 2013.09.30
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Abstract

Black spot of sweet persimmon, caused by Alternaria alternata, occurred in an orchard in Gyeongnam province, Korea in 2012. The symptom was appearance of 0.5 to 4 cm black spots on the surface of fruit. The pathogen was isolated from flesh of disease lesions. The causal agent was identified as A. alternata by morphological characteristics and sequencers of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and ITS4 regions of rRNA. Artificial inoculation of the pathogen resulted in development of disease symptoms and the re-isolated pathogen showed characteristics of A. alternata.

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