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Lekh R. Batra:

World species of Monilinia (fungi)

Their ecology, biosystematics and control

Published for: New York Botanical Garden. Collaborators: Mycological Society of America.

1991. IX , 246 pages, 7 figures, 4 photos, 23x15cm, 590 g
Language: English

(Mycologia Memoir, Volume 16)

ISBN 978-3-443-76006-9, paperback, price: 76.00 €

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PREFACE 1

SUMMARY 3

A GENERAL PART 7

CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 7

Economic Importance 7
The Goal and Objectives 9

MATERIELS AND METHODS 10

Location and Habitat 10
Study Site I 10
Study Site II 10

Collection and Study of Living Material 12
Cultures and Media 13

Isolation Techniques 13
Study of Cultures 14

Development of Apothecia and Conidia 14
Greenhouse Procedures 15

Preparation of Inoculum and Susceptible Host Parts 15
Inoculation and Pathogenicity 16
Microscopic Examinations 17

Measurements 17
Slide Cultures 17

Nomenclature and Host Identifications 18
Literature and frustrations 18
Specimens Examined 18
Sources and Deposit of Voucher Material 18


CHAPTER 2 MORPHOLOGY, CYTOLOGY AND

REPRODUCTION 20

INTRODUCTION 20

MYCELIUM 20

IN VITRO GROWTH, FORMATION OF CONIDIA
AND STROMATIZATION 21

Zonation 24

Conidia (Macroconidia) 24
Stromata in Vitro 25

CONIDIUM (MACROCONIDIUM) 27

Development of Conidia 27
Liberation and Dispersal of Conidia 29

Germination of Conidia 29
CONIDIA AND OTHER PROPAGULES 30

DISJ1UNCTORS 31

Development of the Disinnctor in M. vaccinii-corymbosi 31
Disjunctor Ornamentation 32
Disjunctors of other Monilinia Species and their Taxonomic Significance 32

MICROCONIDIUM 33

PSEUDOSCLEROTIUM, STROMA AND SCLEROTIUM 34

Ectostroma and its Development 35
Entostroma and its Development 36
Entostromata in the Junctmiae 37
Entostromata in the Disjunctoriae 37

Sclewtia in Monilinia 38
Discussion 39
Germination of Entostroma and Sclerotium 39

Factors that Influence Entostromatal Germination 40
eneral Conditions Recommended for Apothecial Production 41
Apothecial Production in Selected Species 41

APOTHECIUM AND ITS PHENOLOGY 42

Phases or Stages of Ontogeny 43
Ectal Excipulum 45
Medullary Excipulum 45
Subhymenium 46
Hymenium 46
Paraphyses 46
Ascus 47

The Iodine Reaction 47
Puffing by Asci 54
Ascospore 55
Ascospore Ornamentation 56
Anisospory 56
Ascospore Germination 57

APRESSORIUM 57

RHIZOIDAL TUFTS 58

CONCLUSIONS 59

CHAPTER 3 BIONOMICS, HOST RELATIONS AND CONTROL 66

LIFE HISTORY 66

Grouping of the Species of Monilinia 67

The Junctoria 67
The Disjunctoriae 67

SYMPTOMS 70

Blights 70
Blossom Blights 71

Leaf and Twig Blights 71

Cankers 79

Nature of Loss 79
Cankers in Selected Regions of the World 80

Fruit Rots 80

EXTENT OF HOST SPECIFICITY 81

Polytrophs 84
Oligotrophs 85
Monotrophs 86
Alternate Monotrophs 87

CONTROL 87

Exclusion of the Endemic Species 88
Sanitation 88
Chemical Control 89
Biological and Non-chemical Control 91
Disease Control through Host Resistance 91

CHAPTER 4 FLORAL MIMICRY AND INSECTS AS VECTORS
OF CONIDIA 93

Review of Early Research 94
Discovery of Mimicry 94
Evolutionary Significance 97

SYSTEMATICS PART 98

CHAPTER 5 BIOSYSTEMATICS OF SCLEROTINIACEAE
AND MONILINIA 98

A KEY TO SOME SCLEROTINIACEAE ON MUMMIFIED FRUITS 99

DELIMITATION OF MONILINIA AND HISTORY 99

GROUPINGS IN MONILINIA 101

Junctoriae 101

Moniliniafructicola Group 101

Disjunctoriae 101

Monilinia padi Group 101
Monilinia mall Group 102
Monilinia wnula Group 102
Monilinia alpina Group 102
Monilinia empetri Group 102

MONILINIA HONEY 102

KEY TO THE SPECKS OF MONILIN1A 103

MONILINIA FRUCTICOLA GROUP 106

1 Moniliniafructicola (Winter) Honey 106
2 Moniliniafructigena Honey 116
3 Monilinia laxa (Aderhold ~ Ruhland) Honey 120

MONILINIA PADI GROUP 126

4 Monilinia padi (Woronin) Honey 126
5 Monilinia demissa (Dana) Honey 131
6 Monilinia kusanoi (Takahashi) Yamamoto 134
7 Monilinia seaveri (Rehm) Honey 138

MONILINIA MAU GROUP 143

8 Monilinia mali (Takaahashi) Whetzel 143
9 Monilinia amelanchieris Honey 147
10 Monilinia ariae (ScheBenberg) Whetzel 150
11 Monilinia aucupariae (Ludwig in Woronin) Whetzel 153
12 Monilinia gregaria (Dana) Honey 156
13 Monilinia johnsonii (Ellis & Everhart) Honey 157
14 Monilinia linhartiana (Prillieux & Delacroix) Dennis 161
15 Monilinia mespili Whetzel 164

MONILlNlA URNULA GROUP 168

16 Monilinia wnula (Weinmann) Whetzel 168
17 Monilinia baccarum (Schröter) Whetzel 172
18 Monilinia gaylussaciae Batra 175
19 Monilinia olympia Batra 178
20 Monilinia oxycocci (Woronin) Honey 179
21 Monilinia polycodii (Reade) Honey 184
22 Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi (Reade) Honey 186

MONILINIA ALPINA GROUP 191

23 Monilinia alpina Batra 191
24 Monilinia azaleae Honey 195
25 Monilinia cassiopes (Rostrup) L Holm 198
26 Monilinia megalospora (Woronin) Whetzel 198
27 Monilinia megalospora subsp hybrida Batra 202
28 Monilinia ledi (Nawaschin) Whetzel 205
29 Monilinia rhododendri (Fisher ex Wahrlich) Batra 209

MONILINlA EMPETRI GROUP 211

30 Monilinia empetri (Lagerheim) Eriksson 211

CHAPTER 6 IMPERFECTLY KNOWN MONILINIA,
RELATED PARASITES AND EXCLUDED TAXA 213

31 Monilinia taxonomic sp. 2 213
32 Monilinia taxonomic sp. 3 213
33 Monilinia mume (Hara) Yamamoto 214
34 Monilia aroniae Batra 216
35 Monilia corni Reade 217
36 Monilia polycodii Reade 218
37 Monilia on Prunus emarBinata Walp 219
38 Monilia peckiana Saccardo & Voglino 219
39 Sclerotinia aestivalis Pollock 220
40 Sclerotinia phaeospora Hori 221

FRUIT MUMMIFICATIONS CAUSED BY MONIUNIA 222

41On Vaccinium alaskacnse Anderson 222
42 On Vaccinium parvifolium Sm 222
43 On Vaccinium ovatum Pursh 222

BLIGHT CAUSED BY MONILINIA 222

44 On Vaccinium canadense Kalm 222

LITERATURE CITED 223
INDEX TO TABLES 238
INDEX TO RECOGNIZED MONIUNIA AND MONIUA 239
INDEX TO HOSTS IN THE SYSTEMATICS PART 240
INDEX TO GENERA, SPECIES AND INFRASPECIFIC TAXA 244