Ali Kareem Mohammed Al-Taae* and Huda Hazim Wafi Al-Taae
الملخص الانجليزي
Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa Duch.) considered as mostly locally important consummated fruit
crop in Iraq. Infected plants collected from strawberry farm of Horticulture Department,
Agriculture & Forestry College, University of Mosul, Ninevah governorate, North Iraq, during the
spring 2018. From tissues being infected, fungus being isolated and identified initially according to
its morphological features utilizing hyphal and conidial structures. According to cultural and
morphological features, the Pestalotia sp. was detected as strawberry pathogen. Fungus
pathogenicity was confirmed also via postulates of Koch. This was confirmed by the molecular
identification test, methodology confirmed it. Molecular fungal identification pathogen was
performed via implementing transcribed internal spacer (ITS) conserved ribosomal region of DNA.
All sequences as ITS proved homologous to isolates of Pestalotia rhododendri in database of Gen-
Bank at similarity % of 100. At Gen-Bank, Iraqi isolate was assigned No. MN128595.1 as Accession.
Up to our best knowledge, this is P. rhododendri 1st molecular strawberry record in Iraq.
تاريخ النشر
29/09/2020
الناشر
Plant Cell Biotechnology and Molecular Biology 21(41&42):61-66; 2020
ا.د.علي كريم محمد الطائي | Prof.Dr.Ali Kareem Mohammed Al-Taae | 10286