ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Response of lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L.) accessions to Septoria leaf spot (Septoria melissae Desm.) in Hungary
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Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
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National Food Chain Safety Office, Budapest, Hungary
A - Research concept and design; B - Collection and/or assembly of data; C - Data analysis and interpretation; D - Writing the article; E - Critical revision of the article; F - Final approval of article
Submission date: 2019-05-07
Acceptance date: 2019-08-06
Online publication date: 2020-03-06
Corresponding author
Gergő Kovács
Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
Journal of Plant Protection Research 2020;60(1):51-57
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ABSTRACT
Septoria melissae Desm., the most important pathogen of lemon balm (Melissa officinalis)
occurs each year on plantations. The fungus may cause serious yield losses in the absence
of proper plant protection. Breeding resistant or tolerant cultivars could play an important
role in plant protection of medicinal plants. However, only a few descriptions of tolerant
varieties of lemon balm are available. The goal of this work was to evaluate the susceptibility
of three accessions of M. officinalis against the pathogen of Septoria leaf spot under field
conditions at Budapest-Soroksár (Hungary) in 2017–2018. Differences in susceptibility of
the accessions were observed in both years. The accession of M. officinalis subsp. altissima
proved to be the least susceptible to Septoria infection. The frequency of the infected leaves
was only 5.1 and 28.1% in 2017 and 2018, respectively. However, the cultivar M. officinalis
subsp. officinalis ‘Lorelei’ turned out to be the most susceptible to the pathogen with
an average infection level of 26.1 and 66.6%, 1.3–6.1 times higher than that of the other
accessions in each year, respectively. Development of disease tolerant M. officinalis cultivars
may be an effective tool in the plant protection of lemon balm.
FUNDING
This research was supported by the Higher Education
Institutional Excellence Program (NKFIH-1159-
-6/2019) awarded by the Ministry of Human Capacities
within the framework of plant breeding and plant
protection research of Szent István University.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exist.
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