국화 흰녹병균 생태 및 생명공학적 진단에 대한 연구동향

Chrysanthemum is an economically important horticultural crop in chrysanthemum-growing areas including Korea. White rust is the most dangerous disease caused by an obligate pathogen Puccinia horiana. Control of white rust is dependent on chemical treatment and other cultural practices. However, chemical control of disease results in appearance of resistant race of white rust pathogen. Hence, development of chrysanthemum cultivar resistant to white rust is the most desirable. Nevertheless, not much research has been done about white rust pathogen (e.g infection process, pathogen diversity, etc). In order to investigate the way of chrysanthemum to overcome white rust we reviewed literatures reported about white rust pathogen, especially in terms of disease/life cycle and ecology of P. horiana and disease assessment based on polymerase chain reaction in this study. This review will be helpful for disease control and molecular breeding of chrysanthemum resistant to white rust.