Isolamento e crescimento de Asperisporium caricae e sua relação filogenética com Mycosphaerellaceae

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Larissa Gomes da
• Orientador(a): Pereira, Olinto Liparini
• Banca de defesa: Evans, Harold Charles , Paula Júnior, Trazilbo José de , Nascimento, Robson José do
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Fitopatologia
• Departamento: Etiologia; Epidemiologia; Controle
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Mycosphaerellaceae; Fungos fitopatogênicos; Filogenia; Micologia; Mamão
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Mycosphaerellaceae; Phytopathogenic fungi; Phylogeny; Mycology; Papaya
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::FITOSSANIDADE::FITOPATOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4395

Nowadays, Brazil is the largest producer of papaya and the third largest exporter of fruit in the world. Papaya can be affected by various diseases that prevent them from being marketed and, consequently, the exportation of the fruit. Among the fungal diseases, smallpox, or blight, caused by Asperisporium caricae, is one of the diseases that affect the orchards in all regions. This disease interferes directly in the profitability and viability of the production. Beyond its incidence on leaves, it can also cause lesions on the fruit surface, making them unsuitable for marketing. It s almost impossible to find publications related to the biology of the fungus and to the phylogenetic position of the species. A. caricae is considered by many authors as a biotrophic pathogen, based on the difficulty of cultivation and sporulation in vitro. Some aspects of the taxonomic genus Asperisporium are controversial, such as proving Mycosphaerella as a teleomorph organism, the phylogenetic relationships with other genera of the complex cercosporoidal and the separation of the genus Asperisporium from Passalora. Other authors relate M. caricae to the anamorph Phoma caricae-papaya (= Ascochyta caricapapaya), causal agent of stalk rot. However, through the manual identification the genera Phoma and Ascochyta are related to the teleomorph Didymella. The differences between the genders Didymella and Mycosphaerella is the presence of pseudo paraphyses in the last one. This feature is difficult to visualize in histological sections under a light microscope, thus being liable to misunderstand at the time of identification. The aims of the study were the isolation of A. caricae in pure culture, examining the growth and sporulation of the isolates in seven different media and make a morphological characterization of isolates. Beyond these, other aim was to verify the relationship between Asperisporium caricae and Mycosphaerella caricae by comparing nucleotides of three DNA regions (ITS rDNA, LSU and mtSSU) and the phylogenetic relationships with other genera of the complex cercosporoidal, by comparing the sequences obtained to sequences published in databases. It was possible to cultivate A. caricae in all tested media. The culture medium potato dextrose agar, supplemented or not with amino acids, were those who presented the best source to the fungus. Moreover, the species produced spores in vitro in all tested media, except in the medium consisting of papaya leaves. Through the molecular data and clusters obtained, it can be concluded that A. caricae belongs to the family Mycosphaerellaceae grouping it with species of true Passalora and Mycosphaerella. M. caricae was grouped with species of the genus Phoma, Ascochyta and Didymella, representatives of the order Pleosporales. Thus, it is possible that M. caricae is a species of Didymella and teleomorph of Phoma carica-papaya.