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Journal of Central European Agriculture, Vol. 24 No. 3, 2023.

Short communication, Note

https://doi.org/10.5513/JCEA01/24.3.3932

Pomegranate dieback and fruit rot caused by Coniella granati recorded in Croatia

Adrijana NOVAK orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-4516-0767 ; Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Centre for Plant Protection, Gorice 68b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Željko TOMIĆ ; Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Centre for Plant Protection, Gorice 68b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana KRIŽANAC orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-9185-8341 ; Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Centre for Plant Protection, Gorice 68b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Krešimir ŠIMUNAC orcid id orcid.org/0009-0008-4469-3220 ; Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Centre for Plant Protection, Gorice 68b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Luka POPOVIĆ orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-4553-2310 ; Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Centre for Plant Protection, Gorice 68b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Pero ARNAUT ; Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Centre for Plant Protection, Gorice 68b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Dario IVIĆ ; Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Centre for Plant Protection, Gorice 68b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a native shrub and a fruit crop cultivated in regions with warmer climate. In Croatia, pomegranates are grown all along the coast, but with only a few commercial plantations. In 2022, yellowing of leaves, twig blight, tree dieback and fruit rot were observed on cultivars Hicaz and Wonderful in several pomegranate orchards in Neretva Valley. The symptoms resembled those described to be caused by the fungus Coniella granati, a potentially serious pathogen of pomegranate. Samples of twigs, fruits and trunk base fragments were collected from three locations: Metković, Opuzen and Buk Vlaka. The same fungus was regularly isolated from all symptomatic plant parts. Based on cultural, morphological and molecular analyses, the fungus was identified as Coniella granati. Pathogenicity test on pomegranate fruits cv. Wonderful reproduced the same symptoms of fruit rot as seen in the field. To our knowledge, this is the first record of Coniella granati on pomegranate in Croatia.

Keywords

Punica granatum; identification; crown rot; twig blight

Hrčak ID:

308194

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/308194

Publication date:

8.9.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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