Yerel, yabani ve ticari kabakgillerde külleme hastalık etmenlerinin belirlenmesi, tanılanması ve dayanıklılığın araştırılması

Abstract

Cucurbits are crucial vegetable groups significantly produce in Turkey and world-wide. Powdery mildew (PM) pathogens cause economic losses in cucurbits production areas. There are not studies on resistant cucurbit varieties against to PM disease caused byPodosphaera xanthii and Golovinomyces cichoracearum. The aim of this study is to identify genetically resistant plants from landraces, wild and commercial cucurbits such as pumpkin, melon, watermelon, cucumber collected between West and East Mediterranean regions of Turkey. The PM agents were maintained on susceptible cucumber variety, Baccara. The maintained PM pathogen is identified as Podosphaera xanthii in microscopic, morphological and molecular studies. A total of 34 local, wild and commercial cucurbit species were inoculated with P. xanthi. The inoculated cucurbit plants were examined by trypan blue, diamino benzidine and 3,3'-dihexyloxacarbocynin iodide (DiOC6) staining methods during first 3 days post inoculation (dpi). On the other 7th, 14th and 21st dpi, disease developments were scored according disease scale, susceptible and resistant cucurbits’ genotypes were found. The pathogenicity test results revealed that VT18, Meltem F1, Poyraz F1 and 348 commercial cucumber varieties and Adana courgette, Kaledran cucumber 1 and Kaledran cucumber 2 landraces were the most resistant cucurbit genotypes. However, these pathogenicity tests have also resulted Kaledran melon 2 was the most susceptible landrace genotype against P. xanthii. In future studies, these resistant local, wild, and commercial genotypes will be able to use against destructive PM pathogens as sources of resistance.