First Report of Anthracnose of Shine Muscat Caused by Colletotrichumfructicola in Korea

ABSTRACT

Anthracnose is one of the major problems for cultivating many crops, including vegetables,fruits, and trees. It is a continual threat for fruits grower worldwide. Colletotrichumfructicola was isolated from Shine Muscat berries showing typical anthracnose symptomin Korea. It was identified as C. fructicola based on morphology, pathological signs andconcatenated sequences of internal transcribed spacer region of rDNA, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, b-tubulin-2, chitin synthase-1, calmodulin, and the Apn2-Mat1-2 intergenic spacer and partial mating type (Mat1-2) gene. To the best of our knowledge,this is the first report first report of anthracnose of Shine Muscat caused by C. fructicolain Korea.