Abstract
Cucumber downy mildew caused byPseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. and Curt.) Rostov. limits crop production in Shandong Province of China. Since management of downy mildew is strongly dependent on fungicides, a rational design of control programs requires a good understanding of the fungicide resistance phenomenon in field populations of the pathogen. A total of 106 and 97 isolates ofP. cubensis were obtained in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The EC50 values for the growth of all the 106 isolates collected in 2006 were 0.0063–0.0688µg ml−1 (average: 0.0196±0.0048µg ml−1) azoxystrobin and these were therefore considered sensitive isolates. However, 57 field isolates ofP. cubensis of the 97 collected in 2007 with EC50 values that ranged from 0.609 to >51.2µg ml−1 were considered resistant to azoxystrobin. Fragments of the fungicide-targeted mitochondrial cytochromeb gene from total pathogen DNA were amplified using polymerase chain reaction and their sequences analyzed to elucidate the molecular mechanism of resistance. A single point mutation (GGT to GCT) in the cytochromeb gene, resulting in substitution of glycine by alanine at position 143, was found in the three selected azoxystrobin-resistant isolates of downy mildew. This substitution in cytochromeb exhibited different resistance levels, with the resistance factor from 21.15 to greater than 2618.9. In addition, the different resistance levels seemed to appear within 1 year (between 2006 and 2007). Therefore, growers of Shandong Province in China now are faced with a challenge in managing the azoxystrobin resistance in cucumber downy mildew.
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Zhang, X., Chen, Y., Zhang, Yj. et al. Occurrence and molecular characterization of azoxystrobin resistance in cucumber downy mildew in Shandong province of China. Phytoparasitica 36, 136–143 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02981326
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