Alternaria solani

TaxID: 48100

Basic Information

Alternaria solani

Early Blight, Early Potato Blight

Alternaria solani is a fungal pathogen that produces a disease in tomato and potato plants called early blight. The pathogen produces distinctive "bullseye" patterned leaf spots and can also cause stem lesions and fruit rot on tomato and tuber blight on potato. Despite the name "early", foliar symptoms usually occur on older leaves. If uncontrolled, early blight can cause significant yield reductions. Primary methods of controlling this disease include preventing long periods of wetness on leaf surfaces and applying fungicides. Early blight can also be caused by Alternaria tomatophila, which is more virulent on stems and leaves of tomato plants than Alternaria solani. Geographically, A. solani is problematic in tomato production areas east of the Rocky Mountains, rather than the drier western United States. A. solani is also present in most potato production regions every year but has a significant effect on yield only when frequent wetting of foliage favors symptom development.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Ascomycota

Dothideomycetes

Pleosporales

Pleosporaceae

Alternaria

solani

Undefined

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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

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Quarantine Status (3 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Angola Quarantine pests —
Myanmar Quarantine pests —
Sao Tome and Principe Quarantine pests —

Distribution (41 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Country Status State
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Canada Present —
Switzerland Present —
China Present —
Côte d'Ivoire Present —
Democratic Republic of the Congo Present —
Cuba Present —
Czechia Present —
Germany Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_002837235.1 Scaffold 32 564 2613 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR25535570 - - - 21325366 China
SRR25535569 - - - 21430488 China
SRR25535568 - - - 21490218 China

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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