Titel
Sirococcus shoot blight on Picea spinulosa in Bhutan
Verfasser
Thomas Kirisits (*)
Harald Konrad (*)
Erhard Halmschlager (*)
Christian Stauffer
Michael J. Wingfield
D.B. Chhetri
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Verlag
Blackwell
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Illustrationen
4 Abb., 2 Tab., 28 Lit. Ang.
Material
Artikel aus einer ZeitschriftUnselbständiges Werk
Standardsignatur
8320
Datensatznummer
200137133
Quelle
Forest Pathology 2007, 37(1); S. 40-50
Abstract
During a recent survey of forest tree diseases in Western and Central Bhutan, Sirococcus shoot blight and an associated Sirococcus sp. were found on saplings and mature trees of Eastern Himalayan spruce (Picea spinulosa). Based on morphological characteristics and DNA sequence comparisons of the ITS region of the rDNA operon, representative isolates from Bhutan were unequivocally identified as Sirococcus conigenus. The DNA sequence data also showed that these isolates belong to the P group of S. conigenus. To our best knowledge, this is the first report of Sirococcus shoot blight from the Himalayas or any other part of Asia. Sirococcus conigenus does not appear to cause dramatic damage at the moment, but this fungus has the potential to cause severe disease problems on P. spinulosa in Bhutan.