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- Title
Detection of Venturia inaequalis Isolates with Multiple Resistance in Greece.
- Authors
Chatzidimopoulos, Michael; Zambounis, Antonios; Lioliopoulou, Fenia; Vellios, Evangelos
- Abstract
The excessive use of fungicides against Venturia inaequalis, the causal agent of apple scab, has led to the emergence of resistant populations to multiple fungicides over the years. In Greece, there is no available information on fungicide resistance, despite the fact that control failures have been reported on certain areas. An amount of 418 single-spore isolates were collected from three major apple production areas and tested for their sensitivity to eight commonly used fungicides from unrelated chemical groups. The isolates were tested on malt extract agar media enriched with the discriminatory dose of each fungicide using the point inoculation method. To define the discriminatory dose for assessing the levels of resistance, EC50 values on both spore germination and mycelial growth assays were previously determined. Isolates exhibiting high resistance to trifloxystrobin (92% in total) and difenoconazole (3%); and moderate resistance to cyprodinil (75%), dodine (28%), difenoconazole (36%), boscalid (5%), and fludioxonil (7%) were found for the first time in Greece. A small percentage of the isolates were also found less sensitive to captan (8%) and dithianon (6%). Two isolates showed various levels of resistance to all eight fungicides. Despite the occurrence of strains with multiple resistances to many fungicides, we concluded that this practical resistance in the field arose mainly due to the poor control of apple scab with trifloxystrobin and difenoconazole.
- Subjects
GREECE; FUNGICIDE resistance; FUNGICIDES; DODINE; APPLE growing
- Publication
Microorganisms, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 12, p2354
- ISSN
2076-2607
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/microorganisms10122354