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| Isolation and Identification of Fruit Rot Pathogen in Pumpkin |
| LIU Wenjie1，Wang Wenzheng2，LUO Lan1* |
1College of Plant Health and Medicine，Qingdao Agricultural University，Key Lab of Crop Pest Integrated Management of
Shandong Province，Qingdao 266109，Shandong，China；2 Weifang Vocational College，Weifang 262737，Shandong，China |
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Abstract Post-harvest fruit rot has brought huge economic loss to pumpkin production．In order to
exploit the pathogen of pumpkin fruit rot in Jiaozhou，Qingdao of Shandong Province，this study isolated and
identified the pathogen by molecular biology and morphology method and according to Koch’s Rule．Results
indicated that 2 kinds of bacterial strain were isolated from the infected pumpkin fruit．They were the pathogens
causing pumpkin fruit rot．They were identified as Fusarium solani and Rhizopus stolonifer，respectively．
This is the first report in China that Fusarium solani and Rhizopus stolonifer could infect pumpkin fruit．
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Received: 12 January 2021
Published: 10 March 2021
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