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Characterization and fungicide sensitivity of Colletotrichum godetiae causing sweet cherry fruit anthracnose in Guizhou, China

Sweet cherry is an important fruit crop with high economic and ornamental value in China. However, cherry fruit anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum species, greatly impacts cherry yield and quality. Here, we surveyed cherry anthracnose in Guizhou, China from 2019–2020. Necrotic sweet cherry fruits were collected from different areas in Guizhou and examined. A total of 116 Colletotrichum strains were isolated from these symptomatic fruits. Based on the morphological characteristics of the isolates and phylogenetic analyses of concatenate internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and ACT, CHS-1, GAPDH, TUB2, and HIS3 genes, the pathogen responsible for causing sweet cherry anthracnose was identified as Colletotrichum godetiae. Pathogenicity tests were conducted by inoculating healthy sweet cherry fruits with spore suspensions of the fungal pathogen, and Koch’s postulates were confirmed by pathogen re-isolation and identification. The Q-1 isolate showed different sensitivities to 13 fungicides, exhibiting seven different modes of action, and its EC50 values ranged from 0.04 to 91.26 μg ml−1. According to that, the sensitivity of 20 isolates from different samples to ten fungicides with better performance, were measured. The results showed that 6 of the 10 fungicides (difenoconazole, propiconazole, prochloraz-manganese, pyraclostrobin, trifloxystrobin-tebuconazole, and difenoconazole-azoxystrobin) all showed higher sensitive to the 20\u00B0C. godetiae isolates, and no resistance groups appeared. Its EC50 values ranged from 0.013 to 1.563 μg ml−1. In summary, this is the first report demonstrating that C. godetiae causes sweet cherry anthracnose and the results of this study provide insights into how sweet cherry anthracnose could be effectively controlled in China.


Introduction
Chinese sweet cherry (Cerasus pseudocerasus Lindl.; Rosaceae) is an important native fruit crop with high economic and ornamental value (Chen et al., 2012(Chen et al., , 2013b. 'Manaohong' , approved by Guizhou Provincial Variety Approval Committee in 2011, is an unique local sour cherry variety in Guizhou Province, China. Cherry fruits are rich in vitamins, niacin, phenolic compounds, and minerals (Kim et al., 2005;Zhang et al., 2008). Sweet cherry cultivation is one of the 12 most important agricultural sectors that contribute to the development of characteristic agriculture in Guizhou. With the expansion of 'Manaohong' cherry cultivation and the increase in temperature and rainfall, the occurrence of fungal disease of cherry fruits has significantly increased in Guizhou.
Anthracnose is a widespread disease that reduces crop yield and quality, resulting in great economic losses. Colletotrichum, the causal agent of anthracnose, is one of the top 10 fungal genera of economic and scientific importance (Dean et al., 2012). Colletotrichum is the only genus in the Glomerellaceae family (order Glomerellales, class Sordariomycetes) (Wijayawardene et al., 2018(Wijayawardene et al., , 2020. Species of Colletotrichum are known as pathogens (causing anthracnose and postharvest fruit rot in plants), endophytes (producing a range of secondary metabolites), and saprobes . Anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum spp., is an important disease that seriously threatens the production of sweet cherry. Although Colletotrichum spp. are known to infect leaves and young shoots of cherry trees, they most frequently infect cherry fruits at various developmental stages Stensvand, 2006a, 2013;Børve et al., 2010). For example, on the sweet cherry fruits infected by Colletotrichum acutatum in Norway, the initial symptoms of anthracnose on young fruit include dark brown spots, which later spread to the whole fruit and block fruit development. On mature fruits, the disease lesions are sunken and dark brown, and sticky piles of orange/yellow spores are formed on the lesion. Damage to the fruit reduces the yield and quality of sweet cherry, causing great economic losses (Børve and Stensvand, 2013).
A clear understanding of Colletotrichum species involved in sweet cherry anthracnose is essential for disease management. The genus Colletotrichum is divided into 14 species complexes, which comprise approximately 189 species . In previous studies, morphological characterization and molecular characterization were used to accurately identify Colletotrichum species (Cai et al., 2011). Most of the Colletotrichum spp. displayed an unique colony color, mycelial growth rate, and size and shape of conidia and appressoria, which were used as key morphological traits for preliminary identification (Damm et al., 2012). The Colletotrichum spp. were further distinguished based on molecular data, including two intergenic regions, internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and the intergenic region between apn2 and MAT1-2-1 genes (ApMAT), and partial DNA sequences of five genes, namely actin (ACT), chitin synthase (CHS-1), histone 3 (HIS3), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and β-tubulin (TUB2) (Damm et al., 2012;Sharma et al., 2013). Based on this method, a growing number of Colletotrichum spp. causing cherry anthracnose has been reported. For example, four Colletotrichum species, C. aenigma based on ITS, DAPDH, ACT, TUB2, and CHS-1 genes (Beijing city; Chethana et al., 2019), C. pseudotheobromicola sp. nov. based on ITS, DAPDH, ACT, TUB2 and CHS-1 genes (Beijing city; Chethana et al., 2019), C. liaoningense based on ITS, DAPDH, ACT, TUB2 and CHS-1 genes (Shandong province; Liu et al., 2021) and C. fructicola based on ITS, DAPDH, ACT, TUB2, and CHS-1 genes (Zhejiang province; Tang et al., 2021), causing leaf spot on cherry, have been reported in China. In Brazil, Colletotrichum theobromicola was determined to cause necrotic and sunken spots on Barbados cherry fruit (Bragança et al., 2014). In southwestern Norway, Colletotrichum acutatum was reported to infect sweet cherry leaves (Børve et al., 2010), and overwinter on the buds (Børve and Stensvand, 2006a;Stensvand et al., 2017) and shoots (Stensvand et al., 2017) of sweet cherry, thus serving as the primary source of inoculum for more infections in the growing season. Among the above six pathogens, C. aenigma, C. pseudotheobromicola, C. fructicola, and C. theobromicola, were classified into the C. gloeosporioides species complex; C. acutatum was assigned to the C. acutatum species complex; and C. liaoningense was determined as a singleton species (Jayawardena et al., 2016).
Although the application of fungicides has adverse effects on the environment, chemical control is still the most effective measure for controlling the anthracnose disease. Recently, a number of studies reported the emergence of fungicide resistant strains of Colletotrichum species. In Hainan province, C. gloeosporioides strains highly resistant to carbendazim were isolated from mango, litchi, and longan (Zhang et al., 2014). Moreover, C. gloeosporioides, which causes grape ripe rot, showed a resistance to thiophanate-methyl and diethofencarb (Chen et al., 2013a). In other studies, fungicides were shown to be highly effective in controlling the anthracnose disease. For example, dithianon was effective in controlling anthracnose in sweet and sour cherry in Norway (Børve and Stensvand, 2006b). Methyl benzimidazole carbamate (MBC) and demethylation inhibitor (DMI) fungicides were used against Colletotrichum recently (Chen et al., 2016). In the USA, quinone outside inhibitors (QoIs) are the most common fungicides used in commercial strawberry fields for controlling anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum spp. (Forcelini et al., 2017). Understanding the sensitivity of Colletotrichum spp. to various fungicides may have significant implications on the effective management of this disease. However, the fungicide sensitivities of Colletotrichum isolates causing sweet cherry anthracnose in China remain unknown.
In the present study, we isolated Colletotrichum species associated with sweet cherry anthracnose in Guizhou province, and identified these species based on their morphological traits and multilocus phylogeny. Then, the pathogenicity of Colletotrichum species was determined by the artificial inoculation of sweet cherry fruits. Finally, we determined the sensitivities of the Colletotrichum isolates to different fungicides. The results of these analyses provide important information that could be used Frontiers in Microbiology 03 frontiersin.org to develop an effective strategy for controlling sweet cherry fruit anthracnose.
To isolate the disease-causing pathogen, the infected fruits were washed with tap water, dried on absorbent paper, and then surface-sterilized by rubbing the surface of the lesion three times with a 75% ethanol-soaked cotton ball. The diseased tissue was crushed, immersed in sterilized water, and then subjected to gradient dilution, Low-titer spore suspensions were spread on a potato dextrose agar (PDA) plate (Yuan et al., 2021). It was then placed in the dark at 25°C for 4 days, and the single colonies that grew were picked into new PDA plates. The pure colonies were soaked in 20% (v/v) glycerol at −70°C for long-term storage (Kim et al., 2020). The isolated strains were classified according to the sampling location and strains with the same morphology, and 20 isolates were chosen for further study.

Morphological characterization
The colony color of each isolate was recorded after culturing on PDA at 25°C for 6 days. Mycelial plugs (5 mm) excised from the margin of 6-day-old colonies were placed at the center of each PDA plate (total five plates), and cultured in darkness at 25°C. The diameter of each colony was measured by cross direction, and its daily growth rate was calculated. The experiment was repeated three times. A small amount of mycelia was scraped from 10-dayold colonies to observe the mycelial appressorium. Hyphal tips were sampled from the agar, transferred to fresh PDA plates, and incubated at 25°C for 10 days to induce the formation of conidia. Appressoria were induced as described previously (Cai et al., 2009). Using a compound light microscope (Zeiss Scope 5 with camera AxioCam 208 color), the shape and size of mycelial appressorium, conidia, and appressorium were recorded and measured.

Phylogenetic analyses
Sequences of each gene or genomic region generated using forward and reverse primers were assembled with BioEdit v.7.2.5 (Hall, 1999). Then, consensus sequences were then combined with related sequences downloaded from GenBank, and aligned separately using Mafft v7.187 (Katoh and Standley, 2013) or manually when necessary. The nucleotide substitution model for each gene or genomic region was determined based on the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) using jModelTest v2.1.6 (Darriba et al., 2012). Phylogenetic trees based on ITS, ACT, CHS-1, GAPDH, TUB2, and HIS3 datasets as well as a concatenated dataset were constructed using maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) analyses at the CIPRES web portal (Miller et al., 2010). The ML analysis was performed using the RAxML-HPC BlackBox tool (Stamatakis, 2014). The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for BI with two parallel runs of four chains was performed using MrBayes on XSEDE (Ronquist et al., 2012). Trees were sampled every 100 generations, and runs were stopped automatically when the average standard deviation of split frequencies fell below 0.01. A 50% majority rule consensus tree was summarized after discarding the first 25% samples. The resulting trees were visualized in FigTree v1.4.3 (Rambaut, 2016). In this study, 20 isolates were selected for phylogenetic analysis.
Healthy sweet cherry fruits were selected in the field and sprayed with conidial suspensions (1 × 10 6 conidia ml −1 ) or sterile distilled water (control). Five replicates of fruit were used for each conidial suspension. Disease development on the inoculated fruit was observed daily, and lesions on fruit were photographed at 5 days post-inoculation. The fungus was re-isolated from infected fruit after the appearance of symptoms. The morphological characteristics of these fungal isolates were compared with those originally used as inoculum.

Fungicide sensitivity of isolates
Referring to the fungicides with high efficiency and low intensity used for the control of other plant anthracnose, 13 kinds of fungicides were selected for preliminary screening of Q-1 isolates (Table 2). Thirteen fungicides, including difenoconazole, propiconazole, prochloraz-manganese, azoxystrobin, pyraclostrobin, chlorothalonil, dithianon, polyantimycin, zhongshengmycin, trifloxystrobintebuconazole, difenoconazole-azoxystrobin, bromothalonil, and polysaccharide, were dissolved in sterile water to prepare 10 mg/ml stock solutions. Half maximal effective concentration (EC 50 ) values indicating fungicide sensitivity were determined using mycelial growth assays. The PDA medium plates, containing a series of final concentrations of each fungicide (Table 3), were prepared by adding an appropriate volume of the stock solution (in sterile water). The margin of 6-day-old colonies cultured on PDA was used to generate 5-mm mycelial plugs, which were placed at the center of PDA plates containing different concentrations of fungicides. All plates were incubated at 25°C for 6 days. The growth inhibition rate of mycelia was calculated by the following formula: i = (a1 − a2)/a1 × 100, where i is the growth inhibition rate of mycelia, a1 is the hyphae area of untreated pathogen, and a2 is the hyphae area of treated pathogen (Etebarian et al., 2005). The EC50 (concentration for 50% of  (Mo et al., 2021). Each fungicide treatment and control contained three replicate plates, and the experiment was performed twice. A suitable fungicide was selected based on the preliminary screening of 13 fungicides using the Q-1 isolate. Then, the sensitivity of 20 isolates (5, 5, 2, and 8 isolates from Bijie, Guiyang, Liupanshui, and Qianxinanzhou, respectively) to the suitable fungicide was tested as described above.

Disease symptoms and fungal isolation
A fruit disease emerged in four major 'Manaohong' cherry production areas (Bijie, Guiyang, Liupanshui, and Qianxin anzhou) in Guizhou province (Figure 1). Symptomatic sweet cherry fruits displaying lesion collapsed but maintained an intact peel. At the early stage of infection, yellow, caviar-like patches were formed on the fruit surface. With increased  disease severity over time, the fruit became rotten, and lesions turned black (Figures 2A-D). Microscopic analysis revealed the presence of brown acervuli ( Figure 3A) occasionally branched hyaline conidiophores ( Figures 3C-F), black setae ( Figure 3B), and aseptate, cylindrical, and slightly curved conidia ( Figure 3G) on the surface of diseased fruits, suggesting that the disease was caused by Colletotrichum species. To confirm the identity of the causal agent, a total of 116 Colletotrichum isolates were isolated from diseased sweet cherry fruits using the single-spore separation method. We classified the obtained 116 isolates according to the collection location and colony morphology. We divided these strains into three categories according to the colony morphology, and finally selected 20 strains for the next Frontiers in Microbiology 07 frontiersin.org experiment. In these 20 isolates, 5 (named as B-1 to B-5), 5 (G-1 to G-5), 2 (L-1 to L-2), and 8 (Q-1 to Q-8) Colletotrichum isolates, obtained from Bijie, Guiyang, Liupanshui and Qianxinanzhou, respectively, were chosen for further study.

Morphological characteristics
After growth on PDA at 25°C for 6 days, the colonies were light gray at the margin, dark gray at the center and the underside, with dense and cottony aerial mycelium ( Figures 4A,B). Its growth rate was 6.6 mm per day, and its growth rate was consistent with each repetition. Setae were dark brown and acicular ( Figure 4C). The mycelial appressorium was dark brown or black in color and elliptical or irregular in shape ( Figure 4D), and ranged from 6.9-11.1 × 4.2-7.4 μm in size (n = 30). Conidiophores were hyaline, smooth-walled, and crooked with no branches ( Figure 4E). Conidia on PDA were transparent with aseptate, cylindrical, and slightly curved ( Figure 4F), and ranged in size from 12.5-17.6 × 3.5-5.3 μm (n = 40). The appressoria were dark brown or black and elliptical or irregular ( Figures 4G,H), and ranged in size from 7.7-10.8 × 6.2-9.8 μm (n = 30). The color and shape of setae, conidiophores, and conidia formed on PDA plates and on diseased fruit were similar. Overall, the morphological characteristics of the isolates determined in this study were consistent with those of C. godetiae described by Damm et al. (2012).

Phylogenetic analysis
Twenty colletotrichum isolates (B-1 to B-5, G-1 to G-5, L-1 to L-2, and Q-1 to Q-8) obtained from the four cities were selected for further analysis. Six DNA fragments (ITS, ACT, CHS-1, GAPDH, TUB2, and HIS3) combined a gene alignment data matrix was used to perform phylogenetic analysis. The sequences of Six PCR fragments of each isolate were deposited in GenBank, and the accession numbers are listed in Table 4. In Figure 5, the results showed that our new collections (20 isolates) were clustered with C. godetiae. Based on the multilocus phylogenetic analyses of five genomic regions and morphological characteristics of colonies, conidia, appressoria, conidiophores, and setae, the isolates were identified as C. godetiae.    Maximum-likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) phylogenetic tree illustrating the relationships with the godetiae species complex and the Colletotrichum strains isolated from diseased cherry fruits in Guizhou. Bootstrap support values for ML greater than 50% and Bayesian posterior probabilities greater than 0.90 are shown next to topological nodes. Pathogenicity test of Colletotrichum godetiae isolates obtained from Qianxinanzhou. (A) CK was treated with sterilized distilled water. (B-D) Lesions on cherry fruits were inoculated with Q-1, Q-2 and Q-3 isolates, respectively.

Pathogenicity test
Pathogenicity tests were performed to satisfy Koch's postulates by artificially inoculating sweet cherry fruits with spore suspensions of three isolates (Q-1, Q-2, and Q-3) of C. godetiae. After 5 days, all C. godetiae inoculated fruits exhibited necrotic lesions with yellowish colonies (Figures 6B-D), similar to the symptoms initially observed on naturally infected fruits. Fruits inoculated with distilled water were asymptomatic ( Figure 6A). The morphological characteristics of the fungal pathogen re-isolated from the inoculated fruits were identical to those of the C. godetiae strains originally obtained from sweet cherry fruits. Therefore, C. godetiae was confirmed as the causal agent of anthracnose on sweet cherry fruits.

Fungicide sensitivity testing
To identify fungicides effective in controlling the anthracnose disease, 13 fungicides were divided into seven classes (DMIs, QoIs, glycolysis inhibitors, antibiotics, compounds of DMI and QoI, bromothalonil, and polysaccharides) were used in this study. First, the Q-1 isolate of C. godetiae was selected to perform the sensitivity assay. The 13 fungicides all had different degrees of inhibitory effect on the growth of C. godetiae, and the inhibitory effect gradually increased with the increase of chemical concentration. The results in Table 3 show that among the different control agents, prochloraz-manganese have the best inhibitory effects, EC 50 were 0.04 μg ml −1 , respectively, of which the inhibitory effect of trifloxystrobin-tebuconazole and difenoconazoleazoxystrobin followed, with EC 50 values of 0.08 and 0.10 μg ml −1 , and the worst inhibitory effect was chlorothalonil, whose EC 50 was 91.26 μg ml −1 .
We selected 10 fungicides with better inhibitory effect among 13 fungicides and carried out extensive inhibition tests, and found that six fungicides in these 10 fungicides showed high sensitivity to the 20 isolates (B-1 to B-5, G-1 to G-5, L-1 to L-2, Q-1 to Q-8) of C. godetiae, and no drug-resistant groups appeared. The six fungicides are DMIS fungicide (difenoconazole, propiconazole, and prochloraz-manganese), QOIS fungicide (pyraclostrobin), and DMI and QoI fungicide compounds (trifloxystrobintebuconazole and difenoconazole-azoxystrobin), and their EC50 values ranged from 0.013 to 1.563 μg ml −1 (Table 5). These results suggest that these five fungicides could be used for controlling C. godetiae.

Discussion
Colletotrichum species cause anthracnose disease of the leaf, young shoot, and especially fruit of sweet cherry trees, resulting in great economic losses (Dean et al., 2012). Recently, sweet Cherry fruit anthracnose has occurred in a large area in Guizhou province of China, and the disease has become a major factor restricting the development of this industry. However, the cause of the disease is still unclear, and there is  no targeted prevention and treatment method. To determine the cause of this problem, 116 isolates of Colletotrichum species were isolated from four Guizhou cities with high anthracnose incidence. Based on morphological characteristics (colony color, mycelial growth rate, and shape and size of the mycelial appressorium, conidia, and appressorium) and molecular data (sequences of ITS, ACT, CHS-1, GAPDH, TUB2, and HIS3), the causal agent was identified as C. godetiae (belonging to the acutatum species complex) (Damm et al., 2012). This is also the first report showing that C. godetiae (belonging to the acutatum species complex) is responsible for causing sweet cherry anthracnose in China. C. godetiae was originally isolated from the seeds of Clarkia (syn. Godetia) (Damm et al., 2012). Currently, C. godetiae has a number of hosts worldwide, including plant species belonging to the Adoxaceae, Anacardiaceae, Berberidaceae, Fabaceae, Juglandaceae, Myrtaceae, Oleaceae, Onagraceae, Podocarpaceae, Rosaceae, Rhamnaceae, Rutaceae, Solanaceae, and Vitaceae families, resulting in leaf spots, fruit rot, die back and stem end rot (Afanador-Kafuri et al., 2014;Baroncelli et al., 2014Baroncelli et al., , 2015Baroncelli et al., , 2017Mosca et al., 2014;Munda, 2014;Talhinhas et al., 2015;Wang et al., 2017Wang et al., , 2019Wang et al., , 2020Zhang et al., 2020;Shi et al., 2021). Recently, a study on walnut anthracnose identified C. fioriniae and C. godetiae in nuts and buds in the same orchard (Da Lio et al., 2018), suggesting that the pathogen population responsible for walnut anthracnose was complex. Therefore, distinguishing among the different Colletotrichum species is particularly important for accurate pathogen identification. In this study, we obtained 116 Colletotrichum isolates from 40 diseased sweet cherry fruits collected from four regions in Guizhou. The morphological characteristics of these isolates, including colony color, the shape, and size of mycelial appressorium, conidia, and appressorium, were similar to those of C. godetiae (Damm et al., 2012). To fulfill Koch's postulates, spore suspensions of three isolates of C. godetiae (Q-1, Q-2, and Q-3) were sprayed on sweet cherry fruits in this study. The inoculation results showed that all isolates could infect sweet cherry fruits, causing yellow and sunken lesions, which was consistent with the naturally infected sweet cherry fruit samples. The morphological and molecular data of the re-isolated isolates confirmed that C. godetiae is associated with sweet cherry anthracnose in Guizhou province.
No crop completely immune to the various isolates of Colletotrichum species has been reported to date (Dean et al., 2012). As a result, chemical control is still considered as the most effective and important management strategy for controlling the anthracnose disease. At present, QoIs and DMIs are the major groups of fungicides used to control anthracnose in agricultural crops worldwide (Li et al., 2005;Ji et al., 2014;Hu et al., 2015;Forcelini et al., 2016;Yokosawa et al., 2017;Baggio et al., 2018;Wang et al., 2019;Kongtragoul et al., 2020;Shi et al., 2020). However, several reports have described a few QoI (azoxystrobin) resistant isolates belonging to the C. gloeosporioides species complex, such as C. gloeosporioides (Inada et al., 2008;Kim et al., 2016), C. siamense (Hu et al., 2015;Zhang et al., 2020) and C. fructicola (Yokosawa et al., 2017;Zhang et al., 2020), indicating that these fungicides may not be effective in controlling the anthracnose disease in some areas. Therefore, to identify suitable fungicides for controlling sweet cherry anthracnose-causing C. godetiae, 13 fungicides with different modes of action were evaluated in this study. Our results showed that the EC 50 values of antibiotics (polyantimycin and zhongshengmycin), glycolysis inhibitors (chlorothalonil and dithianon), bromothalonil, and polysaccharide fungicides effective against the Q-1 isolate ranged from 4.07 to 91.26 μg ml −1 , while those of DMIs (prochloraz-manganese, difenoconazole, and propiconazole), QoIs (azoxystrobin and pyraclostrobin), compounds of DMI and QoI (trifloxystrobin-tebuconazole and difenoconazole-azoxystrobin) ranged from 0.04 to 1.18 μg ml −1 . These results indicated that the Q-1 isolate is quite sensitive to DMI, QoI and compound of DMI and QoI fungicides. At the same time, we selected 10 fungicides with better inhibitory effects for extensive inhibition tests on C. godetiae isolates, and found that these 20\ u00B0C. godetiae isolates (B-1 to B-5, G-1 to G-5, L-1 to L-2, Q-1 to Q-8) showed strong sensitivity to 5 fungicides (difenoconazole, propiconazole, prochloraz-manganese, pyraclostrobin, trifloxystrobin-tebuconazole, and difenoconazole-azoxystrobin), and their EC50 values ranged from is 0.013 to 1.563 μg ml −1 , suggesting that these fungicides would be ideal for controlling sweet cherry anthracnose in Guizhou, China. However, the effect of 6 fungicides on C. godetiae remains unknown under field conditions and needs further study.
In this study, we showed for the first time that C. godetiae causes anthracnose in sweet cherry in Guizhou province, China. C. godetiae was identified as the causal agent of sweet cherry anthracnose based on morphological characterization, phylogenetic analyses, and pathogenicity assays. Additionally, fungicide sensitivity assays showed that the isolates were highly sensitive to difenoconazole, propiconazole, prochloraz-manganese, pyraclostrobin, trifloxystrobin-tebuconazole, and difenoconazole-azoxystrobin. Overall, this study provides crucial information for the effective control of sweet cherry anthracnose in China.

Author contributions
KP and YP conducted the experiments. TT and XZe analyzed the data. ML and SJ prepared the figures and tables. FT and ZZ designed the project and supervised the experiments. XZh drafted Frontiers in Microbiology 13 frontiersin.org the manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.

Funding
This work was supported by grants from the Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Project, grant number Support of QKH [2021] General 199 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC: 32000013).