Abstract

Black streak disease of edible burdock (Arctium lappa L.) has been observed periodically in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan since 1988. Symptoms appeared initially as small, dark brown to black spots on the leaf veins and petioles. The necrotic spots developed longitudinally along the leaf veins or petioles. Diseased leaf veins or petioles occasionally snapped off at the necrotic lesions. An Itersonilia sp. was isolated from rotting leaf veins and petioles. Laboratory inoculations of edible burdock seedlings using ballistospore suspensions produced typical symptoms observed in nature. The fungus had a feathery mycelium and developed a white to pale cream colony color. The mycelium was composed primarily of branched hyphae with clamp connections at the septa. Ballistospores, formed at the apex of inflated cells, were lunate, ovoid to pyriform. The fungus occasionally produced appressoria, chlamydospores and yeast cells. Based on the morphological characteristics, the causal agent was identified as Itersonilia perplexans Derx. Edible burdock strains were also pathogenic to chrysanthemum and caused petal blight. This report is the first of a foliar disease of edible burdock caused by I. perplexans in Japan.

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