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Melampsora larici-populina, the main rust pathogen, causes loss in biomass production of black cottonwood plantations in the south of China

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Epidemic outbreaks of rust disease have been observed in most of the black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) plantations in the south of China in recent years. However, the exact pathogens that cause rust disease in this area remain largely unknown. In this study we collected rust fungi from black cottonwood plantations at four different places in the south of China. Examination of these fungi by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and light microscopy (LM) revealed that the morphological characteristics of urediniospores for all the collected fungi were very close to that of Melampsora larici-populina. Using species-specific primers, these pathogens were confirmed to be M. larici-populina. In a survey on the resistance to rust disease for 88 genotypes of black cottonwood, nine potential candidate genotypes were detected that may be free from infection of rust pathogen. The results of this study provide essential information for breeding new rust-resistant black cottonwood cultivars.

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Acknowledgments

Funds for this work are provided by the Forestry Public Welfare Project (201204311), NSFC project (31125008), 973 project (2012CB114505) and the PCSIRT program funded by the Educational Department of China. It is also supported by the Doctorate Fellowship Foundation (2011YB018) and PAPD program at Nanjing Forestry University. Special thanks go to the editor and anonymous reviewers for their help in preparing the final revision.

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    Zhibing Wan, Yiran Li, Yingnan Chen, Hongwei Guan & Tongming Yin

  2. School of Life and Environment Science, Huangshan University, Huangshan, China, 245041

    Zhibing Wan

  3. Hubei Forestry Academy, Wuhan, China, 430079

    Xinye Zhang

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Wan, Z., Li, Y., Chen, Y. et al. Melampsora larici-populina, the main rust pathogen, causes loss in biomass production of black cottonwood plantations in the south of China. Phytoparasitica 41, 337–344 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12600-013-0294-0

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