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- Title
Assessment of early blight ( Alternaria solani) resistance in tomato using a droplet inoculation method.
- Authors
Chaerani, Reni; Groenwold, Remmelt; Stam, Piet; Voorrips, Roeland E.
- Abstract
A droplet inoculation method was used for evaluation of tomato resistance to early blight, a destructive foliar disease of tomato caused by Alternaria solani (Ellis and Martin) Sorauer. In this test method, leaflets are inoculated with small droplets of a spore suspension in either water or a 0.1% agar solution. Early blight resistance was evaluated based on lesion size. The droplet method better discriminated the level of resistance ( P < 0.001) for a range of spore densities in comparison with the more commonly used spray inoculation method. Lesions generated by droplet inoculation at 7 days after inoculation ranged from small flecks to almost complete blight with an exponential-like distribution of lesion sizes. Significant correlations ( r = 0.52, 0.58, and 0.63, P < 0.001) were observed across three glasshouse tests of 54 accessions including wild species using the droplet method. The most resistant accessions included wild species: one accession of Solanum arcanum, three accessions of Solanum peruvianum, one accession of Solanum neorickii, and one of Solanum chilense. Solanum pennellii and Solanum pimpinellifolium accessions were susceptible, whereas Solanum habrochaites and Solanum lycopersicum accessions ranged from susceptible to moderately resistant. The droplet test method is simple to apply, offers a fine discrimination of early blight resistance levels, and allows objective evaluation.
- Subjects
TOMATO diseases &; pests; ALTERNARIA solani; DISEASE resistance of plants; PLANT species; PLANT inoculation
- Publication
Journal of General Plant Pathology, 2007, Vol 73, Issue 2, p96
- ISSN
1345-2630
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10327-006-0337-1