Fusarium solani a new pathogen that causes stem rot of sugarcane in South Gujarat, India

Prittesh kumar Kishorbhai Patel

Fusarium solani a new pathogen that causes stem rot of sugarcane in South Gujarat, India

4^th Edition of International Conference on Agriculture & Food Chemistry

July 08-09, 2019 Vienna, Austria

Prittesh kumar Kishorbhai Patel

C G Bhakta Institute of Biotechnology-Uka Tarsadia University, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Food Nutr Popul Health

Abstract:

The present study reports that Fusarium solani NVS671 causes sugarcane stem rot in South Gujarat, India. The pathogen was isolated and identified based on morphology and internal transcribed spacer region. The ITS gene sequence of F. solani NVS671 was deposited in GenBank using BANKIT (Accession No. KU305731). The pathogenicity of F. Solani along with Colletotrichum falcatum strain cfNAV as a positive control was evaluated on cultivar Co671 by cut cane assay under greenhouse conditions. The disease index value of C. falcatum cfNAV and F. solani NVS671 recorded was highest, which indicates that under in vivo condition F. solani NVS671 can also cause aggressive infection like red rot pathogen on CoC671 sugarcane variety. The study demonstrated that F. solani NVS671 also causes stem rot in sugarcane in South Gujarat, India and also this is the first report on this pathogen causing stem rot in sugarcane.