Fig. 1. Symptoms of black rot caused by Diplodia seriata on apple cv. Fuji. Mummified apple (A-C), black to brown spot symptoms (D-E) and black rot symptoms at the calyx end (F).
Fig. 2. Pathogenicity tests. Symptoms at 3 days (B, C) and 5 days (F, G) after inoculation of the isolate AM1 with wound. Control is no symptoms (A, D). Spot symptoms 7 days after spraying of the conidial suspension (isolate AS1) without wounding (D, H).
Fig. 3. Cultural and morphological characteristics of the present isolate. Colony growth at 25oC on PDA after 7 days (A) and 14 days (B) of incubation. Aerial hyphae on PDA after 14 days of incubation (C-D).
Fig. 4. Diplodia seriata. Longitudinal section of conidiomata (A, B), conidiogenous cells with developing conidia (C, D). Conidiogenous cells and conidia, which become pale brown soon after formation (E)-(J). Conidia developing on conidiogenous cells, one conidium in I and J is starting to become coloured. Pale brown aseptate conidia (K, L). Conidia germinationg on a glass slide (M, N). Scale bars: A, B=100 μm, C, D, K, L=20 μm, E-J, M, N=10 μm
Fig. 5. Phylogenetic relationship between Diplodia seriata and other Diplodia species, constructed using the neighbor-joining tree analysis, based on a combined dataset of ITS region and β-tubulin gene sequences. The numbers above the branches represent the bootstrap values obtained for 5,000 replicates.
Table 1. Morphological characteristics of Diplodia seriata
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