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Ceratocystis manginecans associated with a serious wilt disease of two native legume trees in Oman and Pakistan

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A serious wilt disease has recently been found on Prosopis cineraria (Ghaf) in Oman and on Dalbergia sissoo (Shisham) in Pakistan. Disease symptoms on both these native, leguminous hosts include vascular discolouration and partial or complete wilt of affected trees. A species of Ceratocystis was consistently isolated from symptomatic material. Morphological comparisons and analyses of DNA sequence data of the ITS, β-tubulin, and EF 1-α gene regions showed that the Ceratocystis isolates obtained from both tree species represent C. manginecans. This is the same pathogen that is causing the devastating mango sudden decline disease in Oman and Pakistan. This is also the same pathogen that has been reported causing a wilting disease on Acacia mangium in Indonesia. Cross inoculation with C. manginecans isolates from P. cineraria, D. sissoo and mango showed that the fungus can cause disease on all three trees.

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Acknowledgement

We thank members of the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP), University of Pretoria, South Africa, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Oman, for funding and providing facilities to conduct this study. We also thank the Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) for facilitating surveys and shisham sample collection in Pakistan.

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  1. Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa

    A. O. Al Adawi & M. J. Wingfield

  2. Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa

    I. Barnes & B. D. Wingfield

  3. University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan

    I. A. Khan

  4. Department of Crop Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 34, Al Khod, 123, Sultanate of Oman

    A. M. Al Subhi & M. L. Deadman

  5. Ghadafan Agriculture Research Station, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, P. O. Box 204, Sohar, 311, Sultanate of Oman

    A. O. Al Adawi & A. A. Al Jahwari

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Al Adawi, A.O., Barnes, I., Khan, I.A. et al. Ceratocystis manginecans associated with a serious wilt disease of two native legume trees in Oman and Pakistan. Australasian Plant Pathol. 42, 179–193 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-012-0196-5

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