Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Tomaso-Peterson, Maria

Committee Member

Collison, Clarence

Committee Member

Ingram, David

Committee Member

Wong, Francis

Committee Member

Munshaw, Gregg

Date of Degree

5-2-2009

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Entomology and Plant Pathology

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department

Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology

Abstract

Anthracnose, incited by Colletotrichum cereale, is a destructive disease of physiologically stressed creeping bentgrass putting greens in Mississippi and Alabama. Anthracnose severity and frequency of occurrence have increased over the past 15 years, and fungicide resistance may have had a role in the increase. In vitro bioassays were performed to evaluate thiophanate methyl and azoxystrobin against C. cereale isolates exposed to the fungicides and baseline isolates that had not been exposed to either fungicide. All isolates collected from creeping bentgrass were uninhibited by both fungicides at discriminatory doses. Partial nucleotide sequences of the â-tubulin 2 (thiophanate methyl) or cytochrome b (azoxystrobin) gene was compared to confirm fungicide resistance. Thiophanate methyl resistance was conferred by either a point mutation from glutamic acid to alanine at position 198, or phenylalanine to tyrosine at position 200. Azoxystrobin resistance was conferred by an amino acid point mutation from glycine to alanine at position 143.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/15041

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