Abstract
C. apii is one of the most damaging plant pathogenic fungi of celery. During the 2012, samples of celery with typical symptoms of leaf blight were collected on the territory of Veliko Grdaište and their identification is performed using morphological and molecular methods. The pathogenicity test was conducted on healthy plants and all tested isolates caused typical symptoms after inoculation. Conidiophores arising from the stromata formed dense fascicles or single, straight to slightly curved, brown. Conidia are solitary, hyaline and septate (5-13 septa), cylindrical to obclavate, or straight to slightly curved, obtuse at the apex. Truncated and thickened at the base. Fragments of the expected length for the internal transcribed spacer (ITS1/ITS4), calmodulin (CAL-228F/CAL2Rd) and histone (CYLH3F/ CYLH3R) gene were amplified and the obtained sequences showed 100% identity with the C. apii sequences deposited in GenBank.
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