Open AccessFirst Report of Alternaria arborescens Causing Early Blight on Tomato in Iraq
Author(s) -
Nisreen J. Razak,
Mohammed H. Abass
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
maǧallaẗ al-baṣraẗ al-ʻulūm al-zirāʻiyyaẗ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2520-0860
pISSN - 1814-5868
DOI - 10.37077/25200860.2021.34.1.20
Subject(s) - blight , alternaria , biology , pathogenicity , botany , pathogen , fungal pathogen , isolation (microbiology) , horticulture , microbiology and biotechnology
In this paper, the isolation of the fungal species Alternaria arborescens was done from symptomatic tomato leaves and diagnosed morphologically and molecularly using ITS primers. Subsequently, pathogenicity determination was achieved for the diagnosed fungal species on tomato plant. It’s noteworthy, this work on A. arborescens was not previously recorded as a potential pathogen on the shoot system of tomato in Iraq.