Green mould disease caused by Penicillium halotolerans infecting locally cultivated Citrus latifolia in Iraq

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024): Journal of Rafidain Environment January 2024
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Oct 6, 2025

Abstract

   To identify the causal agent, a total of 8 symptomatic fruits were collected. The features were as follow: green-blue fungus growth on the fruitiness superficial, after that fruit decaying finally. The fungi were grown on Cazepek yeast extract agar, Malt extract media, and Glycerol nitrate agar, Incubation in different temperature (4, 25, and 37 ⁰C). Molecular identification of P. halotolerans was uitilized for the genomic DNA extraction by utilizing an extraction kit (Zymo Research environmental purification, Quick-DNA™ Miniprep Plus Kit). The sequences of isolate MBJ1 were deposited in GenBank (OR622875), which was first report of green mould disease cuased by P. halotolerans  infecting Citrus latifolia in Iraq.

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Authors

Mohammed Yahya Allawi
Bilal Salim Al- Taie
Noor myasar sadiq

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https://doi.org/10.33899/jre.v2i1.49643
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