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VEGETATIVE COMPATIBILITY GROUPS OF <strong>VERTICILLIUM</strong>DAHLIAE ISOLATES OBTAINED FROM CULTIVATED ANDWEED PLANTS IN CRETED.J. VAKALOUNAKIS AND E.K. LIGOXIGAKISNational Agricultural Reaserch Foundation (N.A.G.RE.R.), Plant Protection Institute GR 71003Heraklio, Crete, GreeceE-mail: vakalounakis@nagref.grA collection of one hundred and twenty two (122) isolates of Verticilliumdahliae Kleb. obtained from 23 cultivated plant species (in open fields and undercover) belonging to nine botanical families, and seven weed species belonging to fivebotanical families, grown throughout Crete, were tested by vegetative compatibilitygroup (VCG) analysis. Most of these isolates had been classified to pathotypes andraces in previous works. The aim was to study the genetic relatedness of the isolatesand to classify them in one of the four known VCGs (1, 2, 3, 4) by pairings ofcomplementary nitrate-nonutilizing (nit) mutants induced on a chlorate-containingmedium, using tester strains from the USA. Of these: one isolate originating from anolive tree cultivated at Messara valley was assigned to VCG1; 27 isolates (obtainedfrom 10 cultivated species belonging to six families and two weed species belongingto two families) were assigned to VCG2, and 62 isolates (obtained from 17 cultivatedspecies belonging to seven families and seven weed species belonging to fivefamilies) were assigned to VCG4. No isolates were assigned to VCG3. All isolateswithin a VCG were strongly compatible with at least one of the tester isolates butwere not always completely incompatible with tester strains of other VCGs. Thirteenisolates (obtained from eight cultivated species belonging to 5 families and a weedspecies) were not assigned to a VCG because their nit mutants complmented with nitmutants of more than one tester strains. Four isolates (obtained from three cultivatedand one weed species belonging to one family) were not assigned to VCG becausethey did not produce nit mutants; whereas two other isolates (obtained from twocultivated species belonging to two families) were not assigned to a VCG becausethey produced nit mutants that did not complement any of the tester strains. Of the 89V. dahliae isolates that were finally assigned to VCGs, 68.9% belonged to VCG4,30.0% to VCG2 and 1.1% to VCG1. This is the first attempt Cretan isolates of V.dahliae to be assigned to VCGs . and the second report that VCG1 is recorded in ourcountry.100

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