TY - JOUR ID - 598 TI - Vegetative compatibility, host range and pathogenicity of Verticillium dahliae isolates in Iran JO - International Journal of Plant Production JA - IJPP LA - en SN - 1735-6814 AU - Sanei, S.J. AU - Waliyar, F. AU - Razavi, S.I. AU - Okhovvat, S.M. AD - Department of Plant Protection, Gorgan Univ. of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran AD - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India AD - Department of Plant Protection, College of Agricultural Sciences, Tehran University, Karaj, Iran Y1 - 2012 PY - 2012 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 37 EP - 46 KW - Vegetative compatibility KW - Host range KW - Verticillium dahliae KW - Pathotypes KW - Iran DO - 10.22069/ijpp.2012.598 N2 - Verticillium wilt is an economically important disease which inflicts serious losses in potato, cotton, alfalfa, some vegetable crops and fruit trees and occasionally ornamentals. Verticillium dahliae, infected cultivated species and weeds were collected from several areas in Iran during tewelve years from 1993-2005 and studied for their vegetative compatibility, host range and pathogenecity. The pathogen was isolated from 27 species belonging to 24 genera and 15 families of plants but was most frequently isolated from Solanaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Oleaceae and Rosaceae hosts.  The morphology of V. dahliae isolates on Cَzapeckَs agar and water agar media were different especially for micosclerotial appearance time (4-19 days), pigmented zone of colony (37.8-48.33 mm) and microsclerotial morphology (abundant, irregular and elongated shaped or more spherical and scattered). The ratio index of length/width of conidia ranged between 2.32 and 2.70 micrometer with an average of 2.43+0.11. Temperature influenced the radial growth ratio of the isolates and the growth response of V. dahliae isolates to temperature in vitro was quadratic. All isolates were categorized in three groups based on pathogenecity tests on differential test plants (cotton cv. Saheland eggplantcv. local). 548 V. dahliae isolates from different locations and hosts were assigned to vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs) using nitrate-nonutilizing (nit) mutants. A higher frequency of nit1/nit3 mutants (93%) were obtained compared to nitM (7%). 51.1% of the isolates were assigned to VCG4B, 25.9% to VCG2A  and  23% to  VCG1. The results demonstrated that V. dahliae isolates assigned to VCGs were closely associated with specific pathogenecity within the group/diverse. UR - https://ijpp.gau.ac.ir/article_598.html L1 - https://ijpp.gau.ac.ir/article_598_134920998ab2673105d5dee8e72c8337.pdf ER -