October
2008
, Volume
92
, Number
10
Pages
1,421
-
1,426
Authors
J.
Moral
,
K.
Bouhmidi
, and
A.
Trapero
,
Departamento de Agronomía, ETSIAM, Universidad de Córdoba, Campus de Rabanales, 14071-Córdoba, Spain
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Accepted for publication 10 June 2008.
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Detached olive (Olea europaea) fruit inoculated with isolates of Colletotrichum acutatum, causal agent of olive anthracnose, were used to study host--pathogen interactions. Fruit susceptibility increased with increasing fruit maturity. Wounded fruit were more severely affected than nonwounded fruit; however, the wound effect depended on cultivar and inoculation method. Severity of fruit infection increased with inoculum density, although this effect also depended on fruit maturity and cultivar susceptibility. The susceptibility of selected olive cultivars to anthracnose under field conditions correlated well with the response of immature fruit under controlled conditions. As fruit matured, there were fewer differences among cultivars. Based on these results, an inoculation method using immature green fruit and high inoculum densities (105 to 106 conidia/ml) sprayed on the fruit has been proposed to evaluate olive cultivars for anthracnose resistance under controlled conditions.
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Additional keywords:
aceituna jabonosa,
Colletotrichum gloeosporioides,
fruit rot,
Gloeosporium olivarum
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