Didymella rabiei, commonly called chickpea ascochyta blight fungus, is a fungal plant pathogen of chickpea. Didymella rabiei is the teleomorph of Ascochyta rabiei, which is the anamorph, but both names are the same species.[3]
Names
The specific epithet rabiei refers to rabbia del ceci or 'rabies of chickpea', a name for the disease.[4]
The disease is also referred to as ascochyta blight but there are other fungal species that cause diseases in other pulse species that also go by that term. It also goes by the name blight of chickpea.[5] In French it is called anthracnose du pois-chiche (lit. 'chickpea anthracnose') or ascochytose du pois-chiche ('chickpea ascochyta').[5] In German it is referred to as Anthraknose: Kichererbse (anthracnose: chickpea').[5] It is called ascoquita del garbanzo ('garbanzo ascochyta') or rabia del garbanzo ('rabies of garbanzo') in Spanish.[5]
Signs and symptoms
Once ascochyta blight has infected a healthy chickpea plant, it will start to develop lesions on all aerial plant parts. If a seed pod becomes infected, it may initially be asymptomatic, but will eventually develop dark lesions on the surface of the seed coats.
Description
D. rabiei has a spherical punctiform and membranous pyrenium, at first lutescent then opening to a rounded black ostiole.[4] It has numerous elliptical and hyaline spores or varying size.[4] The fungus survives within the infected crop debris from the previous growing season. It requires the infected debris, because it does not produce resting spores that allow it to survive in the soil during the winter. When surviving in crop debris, it typically lasts longer if exposed to drier conditions. When both compatible mating types of the fungus are present, it is able to develop a pseudothecia that produces airborne spores. These airborne spores play a major role in the dispersal of the pathogen. [6]
Hosts
D. rabiei is known for infecting cultivated annual chickpea (Cicer arietinum),[7] but also commonly infects other wild perennial chickpea species such as Cicer monbretti, Cicer ervoides,[1] Cicer judaicum,[8] and Cicer pinnatifidum.[9]
Other host species include:
Proper management practices
The most important way to protect susceptible crops from this pathogen is to use resistant cultivars when planting. However, this disease has multiple mating types, and may lead to pathogen resistance if the same cultivars are repeatedly used. To add to this, there are a number of cultural practices that can help reduce the vigor of D. rabiei. These include, but are not limited to: using certified disease free seed, rotation to new crops every 2 or 3 years, and planting in wide rows with adequate spacing. [6]
Effects on aquafaba
A chemical analysis of aquafaba indicated that a number of proteins in a particularly well-performing batch were found to be versions from D. rabiei, specifically tRNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase, o-acyltransferase, oxidoreductase, histone H3, and histone H2B.[11] It is unclear how much of an effect these proteins have on the properties of aquafaba.
References
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^ a b c d e f g Akamatsu, Hajime O.; Chilvers, Martin I.; Kaiser, Walter J.; Peever, Tobin L. (November 2012). "Karyotype polymorphism and chromosomal rearrangement in populations of the phytopathogenic fungus, Ascochyta rabiei". Fungal Biology. 116 (11): 1119–1133. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2012.07.001. ISSN 1878-6146. OCLC 5902581684. PMID 23153803.
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^ a b Verma, Sandhya; Gazara, Rajesh Kumar; Nizam, Shadab; Parween, Sabiha; Chattopadhyay, Debasis; Verma, Praveen Kumar (19 April 2016). "Draft genome sequencing and secretome analysis of fungal phytopathogen Ascochyta rabiei provides insight into the necrotrophic effector repertoire". Scientific Reports. 6 (24638): 24638. Bibcode:2016NatSR...624638V. doi:10.1038/srep24638. OCLC 6029350225. PMC 4835772. PMID 27091329.
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^ Trapero-Casas, Antonio; Kaiser, Walter J. (November 1992). "Development of Didymella rabiei, the Teleomorph of Ascochyta rabiei, on Chickpea Straw" (PDF). Phytopathology. 82 (11): 1261–1266. doi:10.1094/Phyto-82-1261. ISSN 0031-949X. OCLC 193649327. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
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^ a b c Passerini, Giovanni (December 1864). "Primo elenco di Funghi Parmensi" [First list of Mushrooms of Parma] (PDF). Commentario - Societa Crittogamologica Italiana, Milan (in Italian). 2 (1): 497. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Pyrenium globosum punctiforme membranaceum, primo lutescens dein nigrum osculo rotundato reclusum. Sporae numerosae ellipsoideae hyalinae magnitudine variae, plasmate granuloso repletae, madore erumpentes. Nella sommità de' ceci coltivati ne' campi e colpiti dalla così detta rabbia onde rapidamente periscono.
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^ a b c d "Didymella rabiei (MYCORA)[Overview]". EPPO Global Database. Europe: European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization. 1 February 2002. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
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^ a b "Ascochyta Blight (Garbanzo Beans) / Dry Beans / Agriculture: Pest Management Guidelines / UC Statewide IPM Program (UC IPM)". www2.ipm.ucanr.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
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^ a b c d e "chick pea blight (Didymella rabiei)". Plantwise Knowledge Bank. CABI. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
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^ Frenkel, Omer; Peever, Tobin L.; Chilvers, Martin I.; Özkilinc, Hilal; Can, Canan; Abbo, Shahal; Shtienberg, Dani; Sherman, Amir (6 November 2009). "Ecological Genetic Divergence of the Fungal Pathogen Didymella rabiei on Sympatric Wild and Domesticated Cicer spp. (Chickpea)". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75 (1): 30–35. doi:10.1128/AEM.01181-09. ISSN 0099-2240. OCLC 505983590. PMC 2798644. PMID 19897759.
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^ Can, Canan; Özkilinc, Hilal; Kahraman, A.; Ozkan, H. (July 2007). Robertson, Alison E. (ed.). "First Report of Ascochyta rabiei Causing Ascochyta Blight of Cicer pinnatifidum". Plant Disease. 91 (7): 908. doi:10.1094/PDIS-91-7-0908C. ISSN 0191-2917. OCLC 4661716178. PMID 30780415.
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^ Chilvers, Martin I.; Horton, T. L.; Peever, Tobin L.; Kaiser, W. J.; Muehlbauer, F. J. (December 2006). Robertson, Alison E. (ed.). "First Report of Ascochyta Blight of Vicia hirsuta (Hairy Tare) in the Republic of Georgia Caused by Ascochyta sp". Plant Disease. 90 (12): 1555. doi:10.1094/PD-90-1555A. ISSN 0191-2917. OCLC 202785383. PMID 30780990.
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^ Shim, Youn Young; Mustafa, Rana; Shen, Jianheng; Ratanapariyanuch, Kornsulee; Reaney, Martin J. T. (10 February 2018). "Composition and Properties of Aquafaba: Water Recovered from Commercially Canned Chickpeas". Journal of Visualized Experiments (132): e56305. doi:10.3791/56305. OCLC 7317651690. PMC 5912395. PMID 29553544. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
