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P-100<br />
Gray mold (Botrytis cinerea) induced berry cracking in ‘Fujiminori’ table grapes (Vitis sp.)<br />
D. Kim*, S.-I. Oh, I.-C. Son<br />
Dept. of Horticultural Science, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea<br />
*Corresponding author: dkpomo@chungbuk.ac.kr<br />
Tetraploid grape cultivars including ‘Fujiminori’ are cultivated for higher quality <strong>and</strong><br />
marketability in table grape production using protected rain-shelter cultivation system in Korea.<br />
Gray mold (Botrytis cinerea) is one of the most serious diseases for tetraploid grape cultivation.<br />
To find out the berry cracking symptoms caused by B. cinerea infection, morphological <strong>and</strong><br />
cellular characteristics were observed using cracking susceptible ‘Fujiminori’ grapevines. The<br />
intact berry rate indicative of marketability was decreased by 62.7% after the inoculation<br />
compared to 89.3% in the control vines. Cluster weight <strong>and</strong> numbers of berries per cluster in<br />
inoculated vines was also significantly decreased as 535.6 g <strong>and</strong> 28.2 compared <strong>with</strong> 842.2 g <strong>and</strong><br />
40.2 in non-inoculated controls. The decreasing of berry firmness from 1.31 to 1.08 kg/Ø5mm in<br />
gray mold inoculated vines induced a three-fold higher berry cracking rate under critical turgor<br />
pressure from 18.0 to 52.0%. The cell wall content per 10 g of pericarp, which can be an<br />
indicator for strength of cell wall structure, was reduced 45.9% from 453.7 to 245.3 mg in gray<br />
mold infected ‘Fujiminori’ vines. The increase in polygalacturonase activity from 0.143 to 0.204<br />
units/mL after the infection of B. cinerea could also accelerate the cell wall degradation <strong>and</strong><br />
berry cracking. Though there are no visible disease symptoms on the berry surface in early<br />
growth stages before veraison, invaded hypha caused by B. cinerea infection are already<br />
promoting cell breakdown between the sub-epidermal <strong>and</strong> the epidermal layer by secreted cell<br />
wall degradation enzymes. Therefore, the susceptibility <strong>and</strong> the infection of B. cinerea before<br />
veraison can be an important trigger of berry cracking.<br />
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