Gladiolus rust, caused by Uromyces transversalis, is a quarantine-significant pathogen in the United States. However, the fungus is endemic to commercial gladiolus-producing areas in Mexico and has been intercepted frequently on gladiolus plants entering the United States for the cut-flower market. The present study assessed 15 fungicide active ingredients (five quinone outside inhibitors: azoxystrobin, fluoxastrobin, kresoxim-methyl, pyraclostrobin, and trifloxystrobin; six triazoles: cyproconazole, difenoconazole, epoxiconazole, myclobutanil, propiconazole, and tebuconazole; three succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors: boscalid, flutolanil, and oxycarboxin; and one broad-spectrum protectant: chlorothalonil) and one plant activator, acibenzolar-S-methyl, applied alone, in combinations, and in various rotations for efficacy against U. transversalis on field-grown gladiolus plants in Mexico. Experiments were conducted in 2010, 2011, and 2012 in commercial fields in Atlixco and Santa Isabel Cholula in Puebla and Cuautla and Tlayacapan in Morelos. Fungicides were applied at 2-week intervals starting when plants had three full leaves. Disease severity was recorded each week for at least 7 weeks after the first application. Under high disease pressure in 2010, fungicides were less effective than in 2011 and 2012, when disease pressure was not as high. In all 3 years, most fungicide treatments significantly reduced disease severity. Triazoles were more effective than quinone outside inhibitors when applied as individual products in 2010, and combinations of two fungicides in different mode-of-action groups were more effective than fungicides applied individually in 2011. In 2012, rotations of fungicides, either with individual products or with combinations of two products, provided excellent rust management. Reducing disease development by U. transversalis on commercial gladiolus plants in Mexico will reduce the potential for introducing this pathogen on cut flowers into the United States.
The epiphytic plant Hylocereus undatus , locally known as pitahaya, is endemic to Mexico. Recently, small-scale farming of this plant has begun and the harvested fruit exported to distant markets. In 2001 and 2002, samples of H. undatus with stem spots were collected from Mecapalapa, Xochitlan and Dolores Hidalgo in the state of Puebla. Early symptoms were small, chlorotic specks, which enlarged as they matured to a maximum of 0·5 cm in diameter. A fast-growing, mouse-grey-coloured fungus was consistently isolated from these diseased stems. After 8 days, under continuous fluorescent light at 22 -25 ° C, pycnidal fruiting bodies (180 × 150 µ m) formed on potato dextrose agar (PDA). The conidia observed in these bodies were one-celled, hyaline, ellipsoidal to fusoid with distinctly truncate bases and measured 12·15 -19·44 × 4·86 -8·51 µ m (av. 16·49 × 5·90 µ m). The isolated fungus conformed to the anamorphic Fusicoccum state of Botryosphaeria dothidea . The teleomorph was never observed in culture, but was seen on infected plants. Healthy, detached H. undatus stems were inoculated with the Fusicoccum isolate, while three control stems were inoculated with sterile PDA discs. After incubation for 3 days at 25-30 ° C, under high humidity and a 12-h day length, disease symptoms similar to those observed on naturally infected plants were observed. All inoculated stems were infected and turned brown, in contrast to the negative controls which remained unaffected. The anamorphic Fusicoccum state of B. dothidea was re-isolated from the inoculated plants, thus satisfying Koch's postulates. This fungus has been previously reported to cause panicle and shoot blight and
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