First Report on Causing Choanephora Rot in Plants and Its Sensitivity to Fungicide.

Choanephora rot of plants (CRC) was observed at the flowering stages in seven plantations of Shanxi Province, China. CRC had caused leaf, stem, and panicle neck rot of , panicle neck and stem rot of , and stem rot of . Typical symptoms included water-soaked, rapid soft rotting, and abundant sporulation on the whole panicle necks, stems, and leaves. Based on morphological characteristics, phylogenetic analyses, and pathogenicity tests, the pathogens were identified as . Sporangiola and sporangiospore of germinated at 30 °C and were able to germinate by two h post-inoculation (hpi). The germination rates of sporangiola and sporangiospore significantly increased at 3 to 4 hpi, and the germination rates ranged from 91.53 to 97.67%. The temperature had a significant effect on the pathogenicity of the optimum pathogenic temperatures for stems of , and were 30 °C after one day post-inoculation. could infect white and red quinoa panicle necks between 20 and 30 °C, and the average lesion lengths were 0.21 to 3.62 cm. Among the five tested fungicides (boscalid, dimethomorph, isopyrazam, propiconazole, and tebuconazole), isopyrazam showed higher sensitivity to sporangiola germination of , with an EC value of 0.6550 μg/mL. Isopyrazam and tebuconazole strongly inhibited the sporangiospore germination of , which showed EC values of 0.4406 and 0.3857 μg/mL. To our knowledge, the present study found for the first time that is a pathogen causing panicle neck of and stem rot of and , while CRC first appeared in the quinoa panicle necks, and gradually expanded to stems and leaves.