Abstract
For the first time, we isolated and identified Alternaria argyroxiphii on Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) in Australia and elsewhere. A single-spored A. argyroxiphii isolate was obtained from diseased cotton leaves that exhibited small circular to enlarged and coalesced irregular necroses in the 2021–2022 cropping season in northwest New South Wales, Australia. We identified A. argyroxiphii based on its large conidia with filiform beaks and sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and calmodulin (CAL). These multigene sequences of the cotton-A. argyroxiphii were 100% identical to those of the type A. argyroxiphii isolate CBS 117222; thus, confirming the identity. On two-true-leaf cotton seedlings, A. argyroxiphii was able to incite necrotic symptoms resembling those observed in the field, and was reisolated and re-identified, thus, fulfilling Koch's postulates. This is the first record of A. argyroxiphii on Upland cotton.
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