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... Sclerotinia minor exists in peanut [groundnut] seed as dry mycelium and/or sclerotia. Several fungi are commonly associated with peanut seed that may interfere with positive identification of S. minor from infected peanut seed. Soaking infected Okrun peanut seed in 1.05% NaClO for 2 min reduced the number of contaminating fungi and increased the recovery of S. minor. Dry mycelia and sclerotia of S ...
... Algorithms were evaluated for computing disease risk and improving the timing of fungicide applications for control of Sclerotinia blight of peanut. Disease risk was calculated by multiplying indices of moisture, soil temperature, vine growth, and canopy density each day, and summing values for the previous 5 days to obtain a 5-day risk index (FDI). After fungicide application, the FDI was reset t ...
... In North Carolina, sclerotia of Sclerotinia minor germinate myceliogenically to initiate infections on peanut. The effects of soil temperature and soil matric potential (psi M) on germination and growth of S. minor have not been well characterized, and little is known about relative physiological resistance in different parts of the peanut plant. Laboratory tests examined the ability of the fungus ...
... In the present study, the isolation and characterization of endophytic and epiphytic biocontrol bacteria from peanut plants affected with white mold and root rot are described. Two hundred and sixty three isolates were selected from diseased plants and biocontrol traits analyzed were antibiosis against Sclerotinia minor and Fusarium solani, siderophore production and similarities in carbon source ...
... Efficacy of four types of Sclerotinia minor inocula were compared for disease incidence, lesion development, and differentiating a disease response on susceptible and moderately resistant peanut genotypes. Inocula were evaluated on intact and detached peanut main stem tissue. Three inocula lacked an exogenous nutrient source, which included germinating sclerotia produced on peanut stem, 3-day-old ...
... In this work, the quantitation of cellular carbohydrates, namely chitin and glucan, in peanut fungal pathogens and baker's yeast was carried out by capillary electrophoresis (CE) and capillary electrochromatography (CEC). The chitin and glucan of the fungi were hydrolyzed by the enzymes chitinase and glucanase, respectively, to their corresponding sugar monomers N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and gl ...
... The production of cultivated peanut, an important agronomic crop throughout the United States and the world, is consistently threatened by various diseases and pests. Sclerotinia minor Jagger (S. minor), the causal agent of Sclerotinia blight, is a major threat to peanut production in the Southwestern US, Virginia and North Carolina. Although information on the variability of morphological traits ...
... Agronomic traits may become adversely affected when field crops are transformed with foreign genes which confer resistance to plant pathogens. Field testing of such transformed plant lines is necessary to determine if desirable yield components have been retained through the transformation and regeneration process. Thirty-four peanut lines, thirty-two of which are transgenic containing anti-fungal ...
... Fungal diseases of peanut, such as Sclerotinia blight caused by Sclerotinia minor, are responsible for increased production costs and yield losses of up to 50% for peanut producers in the Southwestern U.S., North Carolina, and Virginia. The literature is replete with information on the pathology, epidemiology, and control of S. minor infection of peanut, however little is known about the physical ...
... Potato-dextrose agar containing 100 µg of streptomycin sulfate per milliliter of medium (SPDA) was amended to establish levels of 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 µg/ml of the fungicides thiophanate-methyl, carboxin, dicloran, captan, pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB) [quintozene], or thiram. Fresh mycelial plugs, dry mycelial fragments, and sclerotia of Sclerotinia minor were placed onto the amended media, and ...
chlorothalonil; blight; chemical control; copper hydroxide; canopy; cultural control; fungal diseases of plants; microclimate; iprodione; Sclerotinia minor; disease control; crop yield; pruning; Arachis hypogaea; incidence; disease incidence
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... Sclerotinia blight of peanut, incited by Sclerotinia minor, causes serious losses when cool, moist conditions prevail in the plant canopy. The effects of altering canopy structure by pruning were investigated in this study. Disease incidence was used to calculate area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC) for field plots receiving various shoot-pruning treatments. In 1990, pruned plots and ipro ...
... Sclerotinia minor Jagger is the causal agent of Sclerotinia blight, a highly destructive disease of peanut (Arachis hypogaea). Based on evidence that oxalic acid is involved in the pathogenicity of many Sclerotinia species, our objectives were to recover transgenic peanut plants expressing an oxalic acid-degrading oxalate oxidase and to evaluate them for increased resistance to S. minor. Transform ...
Arachis hypogaea; peanuts; Sclerotinia minor; blight; fungal diseases of plants; disease control; fungicides; application timing; greenhouse experimentation; field experimentation; North Carolina
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... Sclerotinia blight of peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is caused by the soilborne fungus Sclerotinia minor. Management of Sclerotinia blight of peanut requires an integrated approach that includes rotation with non-hosts, resistant cultivars, cultural practices, and fungicides. Greenhouse experiments compared fluazinam and boscalid and investigated pre- and post-inoculation applications of fungicide or n ...
... Cultivated peanut, the second most economically important legume crop throughout the United States and the third most important oilseed in the world, is consistently threatened by various diseases and pests. Sclerotinia minor Jagger (S. minor), the causal agent of Sclerotinia blight, is a major threat to peanut production in the Southwestern U.S., Virginia, and North Carolina and can reduce yield ...
... Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is susceptible to many diseases. In the southwestern USA and other regions where peanut is grown, diseases caused by fungi are a major threat to profitable production. Transgenic peanut lines possessing fungal resistance genes offer an alternative to traditional resistance and fungicide application in managing fungal diseases. Thirty-two transgenic peanut lines contain ...
... Sclerotinia blight caused by Sclerotinia minor (Jagger) is a significant threat to peanut production; therefore varietal improvement toward this disease is needed. To date, there have been no reported quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with Sclerotinia blight resistance in peanut. Hence, the objective of this study was to identify QTLs for Sclerotinia blight resistance. A total of 90 F₂:₆ r ...
Arachis hypogaea; Sclerotinia minor; blight; integrated pest management; cultural control; pruning; canopy; chemical control; fungicides; microclimate; soil temperature; crop yield; incidence; genotype; disease control; plant diseases and disorders; disease incidence; North Carolina
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... Sclerotinia blight of peanut, caused by Sclerotinia minor, generally becomes severe only after vines meet in the row middles and a dense canopy develops. Dense foliage appears to support a microclimate conducive to the colonization of peanut limbs by S. minor. Removal of excess foliage before and during a Sclerotinia blight epidemic on the susceptible genotype NC 7 has been shown to reduce the rat ...
fungal antagonists; mycoparasites; peanuts; fungal diseases of plants; Sclerotinia minor; disease control; soil treatment; plant pathogenic fungi; Coniothyrium minitans; field experimentation; Arachis hypogaea; application rate; biological control; North Carolina
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... Sclerotinia blight, caused by Sclerotinia minor, is an important disease of peanut in North Carolina. The effectiveness of Coniothyrium minitans, a mycoparasite of sclerotia of Sclerotinia spp., was studied in a 5-year field experiment and in eight short-term experiments in northeastern North Carolina. The 5-year experiment was initiated in November 1999 to evaluate the effectiveness of repeated s ...
... Sclerotinia minor (Jagger) Kohn is serious and increasingly prevalent pathogen of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.). Peanut stem tissues were reported to differ in their resistance to S. minor, but field performance is not always correlated with laboratory evaluations of resistance to Sclerotinia diseases in other crops. Differences in genotype performance in field and laboratory results may reflect di ...
... Sclerotinia blight, caused by soil-borne fungus Sclerotinia minor Jagger, is one of the destructive diseases in groundnut. Pathogen affected plants usually displays lesions, wilt and collapse which cause high yield losses. Traditional field screening is time and resources consuming. Molecular markers associated with resistance genes offer an alternative selection technique which is relatively easy ...
... Fungal colonies initially extend exponentially and reach a constant linear extension rate determined solely by their growth in the peripheral zone. However the radial extension rates of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and S. minor accelerate over time on PDA. Experiments were conducted to analyze the variable extension rates of the two Sclerotinia species and compare them with those of Verticillium dahli ...
... Pod rot diseases historically caused significant losses in peanut production in North Carolina. Advances in the understanding of pod rot diseases and changes in cultural practices minimized losses in the years since 1979. By the early 1990s, however, some peanut growers began to observe pod rot that apparently was not associated with infection by common soilborne pathogens. Incidence of pod rot al ...
... In the present study, attempts were made to identify the potential of bacterial strains for promoting Arachis hypogaea L. growth. Four hundred and thirty three bacteria were isolated from rhizosphere, phyllosphere and plant tissues from peanuts cultivated in the producing area of Cordoba, Argentina. From this collection, 37 epiphytic isolates and 73 endophytic isolates were selected on the basis o ...
... Sclerotinia blight, caused by Sclerotinia minor Jagger, has become one of the major limiting factors in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) production. The objectives of this research were to evaluate the effects of plant spacing on disease incidence and severity of Sclerotinia blight in peanut research plots, to measure the level of apparent resistance at different seeding rates, and to determine which ...
... In 2001, entries from the peanut core collection, a subset of the USDA peanut germplasm collection, were planted in non-replicated plots in a field with a history of Sclerotinia blight caused by Sclerotinia minor. Variability existed among entries for reaction to Sclerotinia blight. Of the 744 entries evaluated, 11% had no disease, nearly 30% had <10% disease incidence, and only 21% had 50% diseas ...
... The high-oleic spanish peanut (Arachis hypogaea L. subsp. fastigiata var. vulgaris) germplasm line ARSOK-S1 (Reg. No. GP-237, PI 670132) was developed cooperatively by the USDA–ARS, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, and Oklahoma State University and was released in 2013. ARSOK-S1 (tested early as TX996784) is the product of a fourth backcross between the recurrent parent ‘Tamspan 90’ and F435-1-1, the ...
... OLé (Reg. No. CV-128, PI 674164) peanut (experimental designation ARSOK-S140-1OL) is a high-oleic spanish-type (Arachis hypogaea L. subsp. fastigiata var. vulgaris) that was cooperatively released by the USDA–ARS and the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station in 2014. OLé is the product of the cross ‘Tamspan 90’ × F435. The male parent, F435, is the original donor of the high-oleic genes. Pedigr ...
Arachis hypogaea; Sclerotinia minor; crop yield; incidence; fungicides; field experimentation; amides; application rate; biological resistance; North Carolina
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... Sclerotinia minor, a soilborne fungal pathogen of peanut, can cause serious yield loss in North Carolina. A field test was implemented to study genotype reaction, and the effect of acibenzolar-S-methyl (a plant activator) and the fungicide fluazinam on disease incidence. In all, 13 genotypes in 1997 and 12 genotypes in 1998 were evaluated. Three applications of acibenzolar-S-methyl (0.14 kg a.i./h ...
... Germplasm collections are valuable sources of desirable traits such as disease resistance, but many accessions have yet to be characterized. Seventy-one accessions of the US peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) mini-core were evaluated from 2013 to 2015 for yield, seed quality characteristics, Sclerotinia blight (caused by Sclerotinia minor Jagger) resistance in the field, and for a Sclerotinia resistance ...
... Cultivated peanut, the third most important oilseed in the world, is consistently threatened by various diseases and pests. Sclerotinia minor Jagger (S. minor), the causal agent of Sclerotinia blight, is a major threat to peanut production in many countries and can reduce yield by up to 50% in severely infested fields. Host plant resistance will provide the most effective solution to managing Scle ...
... Four hundred isolates of Sclerotinia minor were obtained from diseased peanut plants (Arachis hypogaea) in field plots untreated or treated three times with iprodione (1.12 kg/ha) in 1987. On glucose-yeast extract agar containing iprodione at 2 microgram ml, only 67%. the isolates grew. These isolates produced more mycelial growth than corresponding isolates not previously exposed to the fungicide ...
... The state of Texas has three major regions with a history of peanut production: South Texas, Central Texas, and West Texas. The Texas A&M AgriLife peanut breeding program conducts replicated advanced yield trials at multiple locations within each of these regions annually. This study was initiated using entries from these same advanced line tests to determine if there were inter-regional and/or in ...
Cylindrocladium; mulches; interspecific variation; soil temperature; soil water content; fungal diseases of plants; heat; wheat straw; Sclerotinia minor; inoculum density; field experimentation; Arachis hypogaea; incidence; North Carolina
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... Experiments were conducted in 1992, 1993, and 1994 to determine the effects of surface residue on incidence of Cylindrocladium black rot (CBR), Sclerotinia blight, and Southern stem rot of peanut in microplots in North Carolina. Soil was infested with either Cylindrocladium parasiticum, Sclerotium rolfsii, or Sclerotinia minor and plots were planted with the peanut cultivars NC 7 or NC 10C. Wheat ...