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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Regional Evaluation of Fungal Pathogen Incidence in Colombian Cocoa Crops
Beteiligte:
Villamizar-Gallardo, Raquel;
Osma, Johann F.;
Ortíz-Rodriguez, Oscar Orlando
Erschienen:
MDPI AG, 2019
Erschienen in:
Agriculture, 9 (2019) 3, Seite 44
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.3390/agriculture9030044
ISSN:
2077-0472
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Beschreibung:
The production of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) in Colombia has a significant environmental and socioeconomic importance as a promissory crop in the post-conflict process. The department of Norte de Santander has cocoa crops that are dramatically affected by fungal pathogens causing important losses during harvest and post-harvest. Therefore, the current study focused on the determination of the incidence of diseases caused by phytopathogenic fungi in cocoa crops, and the identification of primary phytopathogenic fungi found in biological material from different farms of the region. The study was conducted in four municipalities of the department, by sampling fruits infected with frosty pod rot (FPR) and black pod rot (BPR) that presented in situ incidence ranging from 0.37 to 21.58% and from 1.75 to 35.59%, respectively. The studied hybrid materials, together with clone TSH 65, were found to be the most susceptible, while the remaining clones were more tolerant, especially CCN 51, IMC 67, and ICS95. Fifteen strains were isolated using in vitro assays and then morphologically characterized both in solid media and by microscopy. Nine of them corresponded to the pathogen Moniliophthora roreri, and other six to Phytophthora palmivora. The isolated agents showed in vitro morphological variability, as well as the ability to adapt to different environments when growing in situ.