Original scientific paper

PATHOGENICITY OF FUSARIUM SPP. ISOLATED FROM WEEDS AND PLANT DEBRIS IN EASTERN CROATIA TO WHEAT AND MAIZE

Jelena Ilić ; J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Agriculture in Osijek, Croatia
Jasenka Ćosić ; J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Agriculture in Osijek, Croatia
Draženka Jurković ; J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Agriculture in Osijek, Croatia
Karolina Vrandečić ; J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Agriculture in Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

Pathogenicity of thirty isolates representing 14 Fusarium species isolated from weeds and plant debris in eastern Croatia was investigated in the laboratory. Pathogenicity tests were performed on wheat and maize seedlings. The most pathogenic Fusarium spp. was F. graminearum isolated from Amaranthus retroflexus, Abutilon theophrasti and Chenopodium album. There was a noticeable inter- and intraspecies variability in pathogenicity towards wheat and maize. Isolates of F. solani from Sonchus arvensis and F. verticillioides from C. album were highly pathogenic to wheat seedlings and apathogenic to maize seedlings. Isolates of F. venenatum were very pathogenic to wheat and maize being the first report about pathogenicity of this species. This experiment proves
that weeds and plant debris can serve as alternate hosts and source of inoculum of plant pathogens.

Keywords

pathogenicity; Fusarium spp.; weeds; plant debris

Hrčak ID:

94622

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/94622

Publication date:

17.12.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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