A new species of Pythium hydnosporum as a pathogen associated with vine decline of melon (Cucumis melo L.) in Iraq

Rebwar A. Mustafa

doi:10.14719/pst.3721

Authors

Rebwar A. Mustafa Bakrajo Technical Institute, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Sulaimani, Iraq https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-1383

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.3721

Keywords:

Cantaloupe, deterioration, fungi, melon root rot, Pythium hydnosporum

Abstract

Several pathogenic fungi have become an important vine decline of cantaloupe melone (Cucumis melo L.). In 2021, root rot on cantaloupe was observed during the harvest phase in the fields in Penjwen and Shahrazoor in Sulaimani governorate of Northern Kurdistan region Iraq. This present study was conducted to isolate the causal agent of fungi in lesions of root rot of cantaloupe. A total of 16 fungal isolates were obtained of which isolates Monosporascus cannonballus, M. eutypoides, Acremonium vitellinium, Fusarium oxysporium, F. equiseti, Macrophomina phaseolina, Saccharomyces kudriavzevii, F. robinianum, Rhizopus arrhizus, Botrytis cinerea, Cytospora eucalypticola, F. falciforme, Pythium hydnosporum, Alternaria tenuissima, Rhizoctonia solani and Phytophthora colocasiae were obtained from root melon. Identification of all fungal isolates was based on using both morphological characteristics and molecular analysis, on internal transcribed spacer (ITS1, ITS4, LSU) are primers that are used for identification. DNA sequences of the fungal pathogen were identified as Pythium hydnosporum a new pathogenic fungi causal agent of cantaloupe vine decline. A pathogenicity test was conducted to verify Koch's postulates and P. hydnosporum was observed to cause root rot of melon, symptoms of the disease were similar to those seen in the field.

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