Preliminary Assessment on 229 Accessions of Mango Germplasm for Resistance to Anthracnose
Mango anthracnose (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Penz.) is a severe disease that has an seriously affect on growth potential, production and quality of mango. Choice of resistant cultivars is one of the most effective prevention methods. In this study, the detached leaf disease resistance identification method was used to preliminary identification of the disease resistance of 229 accessions of mango germplasm in the Germplasm Repository of Mango Ministry of Agriculture in Danzhou. The results showed that no mango germplasm under assessment was found immune and highly susceptible to mango anthracnose, among them 13 accessions were highly resistant, 36 accessions moderately resistant, 116 accessions moderately susceptible, and 64 accessions susceptible. This preliminary research has laid a foundation of genetic regularity of disease resistance and molecular breeding research on mango.